Re: [clug-talk] Let's talk about SATA on Linux was: Windows XP install.

["J. Rafael S�nchez"]

I have to admit that maybe I don't understand Serial ATA very well yet; but I ran into some issues on  a new system I set up recently (Dual Book RH9/WinXP - with a dual-layer IDE dvd writer, and TWO 200G serial drives). I have read that there are advantages as SATA over regular ATA,such as a bit of increase performance, not much, but some nevertheless. Also the ability of having concurrent read and write requests on the devices - I'm not sure if I using the right terminology here. There are several, 4?, not sure, different options for sata configuration under the bios i.e. legacy, combined, auto, and ??. It seems that it doesn't really matter what setting you choose, the devices get detected almost randomly anyway. This affects in what order the devices get plugged it too. It gets crazier when you combine regular ata drives plugged into the regular ide controllers and serial ata drives. It also appears that you can only have so many of one and so many of the other. You cannot use all the possible combinations. Do you think that SATA has long ways to go yet? or is I that don't know how to use it? I'm in the process of looking for a backup system, possible a 6 or 12 channel serial ATA raid system on RH9 (raid 5). Do you think I have some things to be concerned about? Rafael. Curtis Sloan wrote: On Tue September 28 2004 16:58, Kevin Anderson wrote: It gets better. So far, the "recommended" way on most forums is to install onto a PATA drive, and then GHOST it onto the SATA drive. I've found a thread that seems to point to some other experimental drivers that might work... But geez... That doesn't sound too far different than what I've heard for Linux installs using third party-supported SATA drives (meaning there's no kernel driver for it). So, really, I think there's two points to be made here: one about (against?) SATA, and one about Windows installs. My two cents is that I don't think anyone ever said a Windows install was easy -- just pretty. ;-) But you're right -- one of the big MS draws is supposed to be hardware support. If the install process is going to be the same trouble as a Linux install using the same hardware, well, why even bother? ;-) Curtis Kev. On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:29, Kevin Anderson wrote: So I'm installing XP on a brand new machine (at work). Athlon 64 3500+, SATA Drives, etc. The boxes don't have floppies, because we won't need them. So I'm installing XP, and it doesn't have a driver for SATA. and can I load it from a cdrom? NO, of course not... This is Windows XP 64bit edition. Bleeding edge MS code. And it can't be installed on a legacy-free system. But thankfully, Moms and pops all over the world find that Windows is far easier to install.?!?!?!? I haven't heard that in a while, and now I see why. Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Systems & Solutions J. Rafael Sánchez Systems Administrator E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.itres.com ITRES Research Limited #110, 3553 - 31st Street N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2K7 Tel: +1 (403) 250-9944 Fax: +1 (403) 250-9916 ITRES, Inc. #330, 400 Inverness Drive South Englewood, CO 80112-5830 Tel: +1 (303) 792-0884 Fax: +1 (303) 792-9914 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

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