On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:04, Matt Ritchie wrote: > I have a new computer with two 120 GB SATA harddrive > Does Redhat 9.0 support Serial ATA hard disks? > Do I need an Active Partition in order to Install > Linux(either Vahalla or Shrike)? It's not about SATA disks themselves, it's about the SATA controller. Same with SCSI, same with IDE. The support issue is not with the disks, it's with the controller that the OS talks to, in order to get to the disks. Red Hat Linux 9 has support for Sil3112 chipsets, which are common on Asus 2port cards, and a lot of onboard SATA configurations. Beware, there are also Sil3114 chipsets, and even some others, that are not yet supported. Only Sil3112 are supported for the Sil chipset family. They will show up as another IDE device, like /dev/hdg. RHL9 will allow you to install directly to them. So, a better question would be, "Will my $SATA_CONTROLLER work in Red Hat Linux 9?" -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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