Yuri Enshin wrote: > For intel SATA controller most MB's can be configured for > 'comaptibility' (not native) mode. In this mode, you can use one PATA > port and two SATA (as primary and slave), and this mode comaptible with > old drivers in kernel 2.4.x. On my comp (i865-based MB and Maxtor 120GB > SATA) livecd gentoo kernel (2.4.20) still unbootable, but I can boot > with smp kernel and install gentoo, and then switch to 2.6 kernel.
Are you saying that you managed to use a serial ATA disk with the ICH5 controller and a 2.6.0 kernel ? What options did you activate in the kernel config ? Could you also give a hdparm output to see what performances serial ATA can achieve ? Because, I am really interested with serial ATA but I have to be sure about serial ATA compatibility between my I865ep motherboard ( Abit IS7-E ) and the linux kernel. -- Nicolas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
