Fedora Core 3 SATA support??

[force5]

Does anyone know if Fedora Core 3 supports SATA. My manager purchased a Dell Server today with SATA without my knowledge, and now I am concerned about SATA being a problem.

 

[sleipnir214]

As I understand it, support for SATA began in FC1, but support for individual chipsets was spotty. You'll have to check for your particular chipset.


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[zeland]

Actually, if I recall correctly, SATA support was available back in RH9. Silicon Image SATA controllers are pretty well supported. I have 2 units of ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe boards with built-in SI controllers and also 1 older P3 with with an SI controller as an add-on card. All working perfectly. However, I've heard that you should avoid Promise controllers like the plague.


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[Prizmm]

I am trying to install Fedora on two sata 74g drives in a raid config. It keeps erroring out on install. Anyone know of any tutorials or faqs about sata and linux? I previously got it to work by going into my asus bios and changing a few settings, but then i would have to change back the settings when I wanted to boot windows. Any help is appreciated.

 

[sleipnir214]

You might try the fedora-list archives

Figure out your SATA chipset, first, though.

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[marsd]

I recently did a RAID5 serial ata install on RH Enterprise
that was very strange and required a non-rh kernel in the
end since the RH source couldn't compile cleanly,etc..

It was a 3ware controller. I could point you in the right
direction if this reflects your situation.

 

[ady2k]

Try to use kernel 2.6.10
Good Luck....