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Serial ATA (SATA) chipsets -- Linux support status

Revised: Wed Jan 11 18:25:55 PST 2006 

Problem:
 Serial ATA (also known as S-ATA or SATA) chipsets are rapidly replacing 
legacy "parallel ATA" (PATA, i.e., regular ATA/133) chipsets -- but many 
Linux installers' kernels don't yet support many Serial ATA chipsets. If 
yours isn't supported, you have an installation obstacle.

 --- SUSE Linux 9.3 and later's installation kernel, Fedora Core 3 and 
later's, CentOS 4.1 and later's, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and later, Gentoo 
Linux 2004.3 and later's, Knoppix 3.7 and later's, Debian 3.1/sarge and 
later's (especially when started with the "bf2.6 boot flavour" boot image), 
Slackware 10.2 w/test26.s boot option, Xandros Desktop OS 3.0 and later's, 
Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) Linux 5.04 "hoary hedgehog" and later's, Vector Linux 5.1 
and later's, Libranet 3.0 and later's, MEPIS Linux 3.3.1 and later's, Kanotix 
2005-03 and later's, Linspire 5.0 and later's, PCLinux OS preview .81 and 
later's, ArkLinux's, and Mandriva Linux 2005 and later's 
--- all have a good selection of the required drivers.

(Scott Kveton's and Kenshi's Debian netinst images do, likewise. see 
Links/Resources.)

Note: There is no such thing as a distribution or its installer (generically) 
"having SATA support" (or not). Please send anyone speaking in such terms to 
this page. (Some SATA chipsets have been supported since practically forever, 
as their programming interfaces are unchanged from PATA predecessors. Others 
are brand-new and require new drivers from scratch.)

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HTH
peace
aaron
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On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:39, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat February 11 2006 8:58 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> > That is wierd.  I've got a 64bit box I'm going to install fedora 4
> > on. Hopefully, they've got support for sata by then.
> 
> well, like I said, RHES V3 update 4 I "think" is using the 2.4 kernel + 
> "additions". it seems people using the 2.6 kernel have SATA drivers.
> Hopefully it won't be an issue.
> I looked on the Dell poweredge page and saw the desktop servers all 
> come with SATA drives.
> 
> 
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> Paul Cartwright
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