Yet te last time I looked at a 2.6 kernel config the messages said that sada support was depricated and to use some tool I can't remember the name of for sada support. What does that really mean if anything? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:18 AM Subject: Re: debian and sata drives > I've not used Debian with a SATA drive, but I've used the last three > versions of Slackware with SATA drives. To make a long story short, if > the kernel doesn't have SATA support compiled in, the drive won't be > recognized. In some kernels, especially 2.4.x, the system will hang. So, > if the Speakup kernel doesn't have SATA support, you'll have to make a > custom kernel and use it to install. SATA is in the SCSI section, under > low-level drivers for some odd reason. That means that a SATA kernel also > needs SCSI disk support. The SATA drive will show up as a SCSI disk. > Once it is set up, it works fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
