On September 29, 2004 01:21 pm, "J. Rafael SÃnchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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). > What's the motherboard?
RH9 only supports very limited SATA controllers (Early Intel Chipsets) and not well. I would recommend a more current distro for that setup. Either FC2 or SuSE 9.1. Then again you motherboard might limit you further. (NOTE: If you are going install a WinXP/FC2 dual boot, you should look up the instructions on how to do it properly. FC2 breaks partition compatibility with windows.) > 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. That depends on the motherboard, bios and Sata chipset. Some intel motherboards limit you to 4 devices (SATA + IDE) but that's really a BIOS issue so once you are into linux you may be able to get around that. In otherwords it really just affects which drives you can boot off of. -- Mark Lane, CET -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales Manager -- Hard Data Ltd -- http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 -- F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our New Dual and 4 Way Blade Servers <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
