[ale] USE SATA? RE: Ubuntu no go

[Jim]

Barlow, Jim D wrote:
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>> EliteGroup ECS P965T-A.  It was on sale at Fry's last week, with a 6400
>> processor.
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> This board from the logs looks like an Intel Chipset (965)
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> Why don't you switch to a SATA drive and turn off the Jmircron PATA
> controller (if that is an option need to turn IDE off) in BIOS.
>
> The Jmicron chips have been thrown on the boards because the Intel no
> longer has PATA support natively.
>
> - Jim
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One of the purposes of this machine is a file server of which I have
over a terabyte of ide disks already.  I really don't want to spend a
few hundred dollars to replace them just so I can run Ubuntu.  :)

 It's now happily running FC6 as an Xen dom0 with a debian domU.  I had
a centos domU running before but lost the configuration and haven't
bothered to recreate it yet, since it wasn't really production, just a
test to see if it worked since I had a centos partition on the disk.  I
might put ubuntu on a spare partition as a guest and see how that works.