Is SATA hard drive supported by Fedora?

[Robin Laing]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thu August 4 2005 9:56 pm, Hongyu Sun wrote:
> 
>>Dear All:
>>
>>My computer is Dell OptiPlex GX280
>>
>>>From the specification on
>>
>>http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/optix_gx280?c=
>>us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb
>>
>>the hard drive is
>>
>>Serial ATA 40, 80, 160 and 250GB 7200 RPM hard drives with S.M.A.R.T. II
>>
>>To install Linux, I want to add a hard drive.
>>
>>The Dell website recommended product is
>>
>>      MAXTOR
>>      100 GB 7200 RPM OneTouch II USB External Hard Drive
>>      $127.46
>>
>>It is surprising that an external hard drive is recommended. But what
>>is more confusing is this website,
>>
> 
> If my memory serves me, that's a SFF machine (small form factor), which, if 
> true, may not have an available slot for another internal hard drive. 
> Can't help you with SATA, but there have been many posts on this forum in the 
> past period from people dealing with this issue. You can go here to get a 
> decent search of fedora-list:
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> 

I have a GX260 with the same case and it has only one drive bay 
inside.  I know as I need more space and I have to put the extra drive 
on the USB buss.  Waiting for new drive and USB drive case.

I have SATA drives at home on my ASUS motherboard.  They didn't work 
with a fresh FC1 install but once I updated the kernel module, no 
problems.  About to add more drives as I need space as we all do.

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