On Wednesday 29 September 2004 1:21 pm, J. Rafael S�nchez wrote:
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>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). <br>
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>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. <br>
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>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.<br>
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>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. <br>
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>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?<br>
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>Rafael.<br>
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>Curtis Sloan wrote:
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> <pre wrap="">On Tue September 28 2004 16:58, Kevin Anderson wrote:
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> <pre wrap="">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...
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>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
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> <pre wrap="">Kev.
>On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:29, Kevin Anderson wrote:
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> <pre wrap="">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.
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