On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0200, roy wrote: > > I'm going to buy a SATA HD dedicated for Debian (out of IDE connections and > the HD's are always full). > > I've never installed Debian (or linux) before, just wanted to make sure this > is going to work (as for as the HD's concerned)... > Has anyone done this before or can confirm SATA should not be a problem? > Using a Abit AA8 motherboard, with the onboard SATA controller, I encountered significant dificulties in installing to a SATA boot disk running in the native high performance mode. I think that it would be no trouble in the compatability mode where it basically pretends to be a PATA disk, but I wanted the max performance (The disks under full SATA mode look like sort of like SCSI disks to the system, showing up as /dev/sda, etc.)
I wound up using a PATA boot disk and just use the 4 SATA disks after booting. When I have more time, I do hear it's possible to get a booting kernel built that will come up on the native SATA disks... Best Regards! -Dorn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
