Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> There have been several threads about SATA in the past weeks and the
> problems with it. I'm still not clear, though, if SATA in general is a
> problem or just specific functionality or hardware.
specific hardware.
> Do I understand correctly that "mainboard built-in" SATA RAID is a nono on
> CentOS? That I would need a third-party RAID card for this? What about
> SATA non-RAID or SATA2? Is SATA supposed to work in general or do the
> disks need to run in IDE mode? Do I generally need drivers from the
> hardware (mainboard, chipset) vendor or is "normal" SATA supposed to work
> with the packaged drivers?
>
there is no such thing as sata support, as a blanket cover. you need to
make sure that the specific chipset / controller is supported ( sort of
like Scsi works ).
- KB
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