Re: SATA problem.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:17:50AM +0100, DAVID BENTLEY wrote:
> during boot everthing freezes at the point ANACONDA or
> the KERNEL is trying to load a driver for the SATA
> controller on the motherboard.

Which SATA devices ? You may also need to turn off USB legacy support,
and boot with acpi=off on some E750x to avoid random weirdness/hangs (BIOS
we think)

> Will there be functioning support for SATA hardware in
> the final release of CORE 3 or will we have to wait
> for CORE 4.

Works for me 8)

> NB Will there also be support for FIREWIRE hard disks
> as either fixed or removable devices at some point.

As and when/if firewire for Linux is actually usable grade.

Alan