SATA

[Joel Jaeggli]

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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