[ale] Boot failed

[Stephen Cristol]

> unless you got updated drivers, SATA isn't supported in the 2.6  
> kernel,
> to the best of my knowledge..
> I just did a RHES install, V3 update 4, and it failed to load with  
> dual
> SATA drives. The customer had to go out and buy a new server with a
> SCSI drive.

FWIW, I've got a SATA drive (not the boot volume) running under  
CentOS 4.2. I added the SATA drive to a working box this week. It was  
pleasantly uneventful.

S


$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL (buildcentos at build-i386) (gcc version  
3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) #1 Tue Jan 17 06:51:40 CST 2006