On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:16, Gustave wrote: > Is anyone using the new Serial ATA drives with RH 9? Howdy. > Looking to make sure some people have had some success before dumping the money > on one. Got a new motherboard with the Intel 875 north bridge and ICH5 south bridge. The two PATA drives from the old box were outfitted with PATA/SATA adapters and plugged into the two SATA ports. Originally used a Rawhide kernel to get the box up and running because it had the ICH5 SATA stuff the drivers for the gigabit Ethernet in the north bridge. Tried the 2.4.20-18.9 errata kernel, and the box booted perfectly. Hard drives were detected and configured to use DMA. The Ethernet was detected and configured. There were no ICH5 drivers for lm_sensors. However, a CVS checkout from the development branch of lm_sensors took care of that. In short, everything works. > Is SATA built into the stock RH kernels? For ICH5 and kernel 2.4.20-18.9, at least, yes. > Any performance feedback from anyone using one? Slightly faster, according to hdparm. -train
