[CVALE] SATA

[Wayne Vieira]

SATA has been around on several big Linux systems I know for a couple of
years now.  On the consumer level, I just got a couple of new PCs with SATA,
and installed SuSE 10.1, without anything special to do.


Wayne


-----Original Message-----
From: cvale-bounces at luaren.pc-intouch.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at luaren.pc-intouch.com] On Behalf Of Pete Zaitcev
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 6:28 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org; terry at zinnianet.net
Cc: cvale at cvale.org; terry at zinnianet.net
Subject: Re: [CVALE] SATA

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:25:28 -0700, Terry <terry at zinnianet.net> wrote:

>   - typical /dev name

/dev/sda

>   - are there kernel driver issues or it as stable as IDE

It is "as stable as IDE". Depends on the driver, but there are always
issues.

>   - where are the drivers?  are they part of IDE?

No, thanks god

>   - formatting quirks? manufacturer quirks?

Huh?

> I just want to know enough to build a system tomorrow.  Not sure if this 
> will be a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.

I'd say, 2.6 is better. I had two boxes where a 2.4 would not boot
off SATA. First was Dell PE750 which uses a combined mode setup,
so libata needs to displace IDE in the port space, and Marcelo's
tree lacks the patch (even now). The second is Dell SC430, which
simply was too new for unpatched 2.4.31 or whatever.

-- Pete



Wayne Vieira
HPC Solutions Architect,
Global Systems Practice
Sun Microsystems, Inc.