New system and Seria ATA

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Fri Feb 6 22:19:13 UTC 2004


Andy, 

my controllers (there are two on the mainboard via and promise) were 
supported by the installation.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I hope it is OK to bother you again about the SATA problem with Linux.  In
> your answer to my original question (below) you mentioned that FC1
> recognized your SATA drives with no difficulty.  Did you have to use the
> supplementary block driver diskette (from the image directory on yarrow
> disc1) or the install process from the FC1 CD took care of recognizing the
> drives?
> 
> Did you by any chance install any MS Windows system on this hardware before
> Linux.  If so, my understanding is that you need to follow a special
> procedure and have a driver diskette when installing, say, W2k.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Andy
> 
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> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:50, apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I need to put together a new system and I have been thinking about Serial
> > ATA drives.  I searched stuff using Google and I found out about SATA
> > support for different chipsets.  I also found out about libata modules in
> > 2.6.? kernels.  However, my question is this:  if I buy a brand new
> > hardware with SATA disks only, is there any way to install Linux on it?
> If
> > so, could somebody explain how or point me to some explanations?
> 
> I have a couple of machines using ASUS P4P800 motherboards which use the
> ICH5R controller for SATA.  I have a couple of Seagate SATA drives in
> each (no IDE or SCSI drives).  I had no problem installing FC1, it
> recognized them without difficulty.  I did not try the mb bios raid, but
> did set them up with the Linux sw raid on some partitions.
> 
> The SATA drives show up as /dev/sda and sdb.  hdparm treats them as SCSI
> drives, so doesn't show much.  The smart monitoring daemon doesn't seem
> to be able to do anything with them, probably because it also thinks
> they are SCSI drives.  Everything else that I've tried works fine and
> these two issues I just ignore.
> 
> By the way, if you happen to use the same motherboard, plug your
> speakers into the line in jack (really!).  You also have to tell the
> install to use the sk98lin module to get the on board ethernet
> recognized since it's not picked up by the probes.
> 
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