New PC - everything supported by Fedora Core 3 ?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:44 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > I also selected the Plextor PX-716A DVD burner for this unit.  I was
> > able to boot from the FC3 iso disks and load FC3 using that drive just
> > fine.  I connected it to the black IDE connector on the front edge of
> > the mother board.  The only odd thing with this is that FC3 seems to
> > have identified the drive a /dev/hda.
> 
> Why do you think this is odd? The hard drives on this system (as you
> said) are SATA, and the latest Intel chipsets only support one PATA
> ( = traditional IDE) channel, which is the one you'll have put it on.
> So if you've jumpered it as master, it will be the primary master, and
> hence /dev/hda.
> 
> > I am using only SATA type hard drives (four Maxtor 300GB drives). 
> > Apparently smartd does not work with SATA drives, or at least not with
> > these SATA drives.  For now I have just disabled smartd to prevent the
> > failure message on reboot.
> 
> It is, apparently, coming "very soon":
> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html#smart
> 
> > I should also note that my motherboard has two SATA controllers, each
> > can support 4 SATA hard drives.  The Silicon 3114R controller works out
> > of the box and saw my hard drives.  Currently have all four hard drives
> > connected to the Silicon 3114R controller.
> 
> A quick Google suggests that this is connected via a standard PCI
> connection. This could get saturated by simultaneous accesses to only
> two of those disks: just something to bear in mind.
> 
> James.
> 

Not an issue unless it gets to the point where iostat shows a lot of
iowait time.