Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Hamid
jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.00 seconds = 52.00 MB/sec Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1 I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is simulated as a SCSI disk yes it

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: Hamid wrote: ... jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.00 seconds = 52.00 MB/sec Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1 I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is simulate

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Hamid
Hamid wrote: I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under Li

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linu

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Hamid
I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is inferior

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: ... I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under Li

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Hamid
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it s

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it

SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Paulo Silva
Hi all, I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Anyone has experience with this kind of hardware? Does the SATA technology really tur

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-31 Thread Bryan Andersen
First check to make sure you can run the SATA devices in PATA emulation mode in hardware. If you can't, you will have to build a custom kernel on a different system so you can use it to when you load Debian. If you load using the SATA drives in PATA emulation mode, when you build your new ker

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-29 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:13:18PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > David Purton wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. > > > >Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. > > > >Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a > >SAT

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive? The chipsets are: North Bridge: i865G South Bridge: iCH5-R Can an

SATA + debian

2004-01-28 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive? The chipsets are: North Bridge: i865G South Bridge: iCH5-R Can anyone point me to s