SATA

[n5xmt at bellsouth.net]

Joel,
What driver did you use for the Promise controller?
I have a Soltek K8TPro-939 MB with the PDC20579 chip and nothing seems to work...
> 
> From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> Date: 2004/12/25 Sat PM 12:02:39 EST
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: SATA
> 
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> > Bob Chiodini wrote:
> >> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >> 
> >>> David Corrigan wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> I'm about to install Fedora Core 3 on an SATA harddrive, anyone have
> >>>> any tips or advice before I start? I've heard about some peoples
> >>>> problems and want to do my best to avoid them.
> >>>> 
> >>>> David.
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Hi David,
> >>> 
> >>> My experience with FC3 and SATA drives is it really depends on the 
> >>> controller and whether or not the CD drive is IDE or not. I recently had 
> >>> the unpleasant experience of attempting to install FC3 on an HP Proliant 
> >>> and no matter how hard we tried and no matter what we tried it wouldn't go 
> >>> on correctly. We'd get the system to install ok, but it wouldn't boot. 
> >>> kept on dying in the first stages of the boot with kernel panic because it 
> >>> couldn't see the partitions where the OS was located.
> >>> 
> >>> the problem came down to a catch 22 because of the particular kernel 
> >>> driver that "had" to be present in order to be able to install and run FC 
> >>> with the controller that was in the machine. Had we been trying to install 
> >>> RH Enterprise Linux that would have been a different story.
> >>> 
> >>> What we finally ended up doing was installing Mandrake 10.0 on this 
> >>> machien and its running fine. My advice to you is to research fully your 
> >>> hardware compatibility before embarking.
> >>> 
> >> Just installed FC3 on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939 with a 120GB SATA 
> >> drive.  No problems that I've noticed.  Uses the nv_sata driver.  It just 
> >> worked as they say.
> >> 
> >> Bob...
> >> 
> >
> > I've heard from some using the VIA chipset that they were able to install and 
> > run with no problem, however the workstation with a VIA chipset I had tried 
> > to install on wouldn't take the install.
> 
> works for me on a k8t neo fisr2 which is a via k8t800 with a VT8237 south 
> bridge, I have some disks on the promise 20378 which also works.
> 
> also I've done several installs on servers with intel H6300ESB sata 
> controlers and they've all been fine.
> 
> > Clearly others' milage varies a lot 
> > compared to mine. but its all good information. I like the VIA chipset, but I 
> > like the OS and hardware to work better, so the more responses we get to this 
> > thread the better. That way we'll know which chipsets and SATA setups readily 
> > accept the FC3 installation.
> >
> >
> 
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