SATA

[Mark Weaver]

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.

-- 
Mark

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