Any progress on installing FC7 on a SATA system?

[Dawning Sky]

On 6/18/07, Etanisla Lopez-Ortiz <fedora.list at etanisla.com> wrote:
> What I have:
> home-brew with 1 SATA hard drive and 1 SATA optical drive
>
> What I don't have:
> FC7 installed
> (even after trying "linux askmethod all-ide-generic nodmraid")
>
> It is my (flawed) understanding that the sata driver that FC7 uses on
> install doesn't play nice with systems with multiple SATA devices, or on
> systems with SATA/PATA devices. The last I read, was to install FC7 off
> a large (4G+) usb drive, a network install, an iso mounted on a FAT32
> partition, or onto the hard drive while connected to another computer
> and then placing the drive back in the original computer and praying it
> all works well.
>

what are you talking about?  I installed (freshly) F7 on a newly built
all-SATA system, using a DVD booted on a SATA DVD+-RW drive.  i
installed the OS on one SATA HDD, and built a RAID5 array off the
other 4 SATA HDDs during the installation.

> None of those options are available to me. Google keeps pointing me back
> to the same Fedora Forum posts of which I have already summarized above.
>
> Should I stick with my working FC6, or are there possibilities I haven't
> run across yet?
>

DS