I have a system with an on-board VIA SATA. 2.6.0test5 and beyond have good support for this chipset, and by manually patching a rawhide 2.4.22 kernel using this thread as reference -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg202339.html -- I got the SATA running on 2.4.x. The author of libata told me that kernels > 2.4.22 support this chipset. Anyhow, as told by others -- no easy to way to do a clean-install on this kind of drive -- install on a regular IDE and DD everything to the SATA if you want it to be your main.


Alon.


Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Yup,

VIA SATA support in kernel 2.4.x is minimal - at best. The 2.6.0-testx got more stuff (until someone will backport it)..

My suggestion - set the BIOS SATA stuff to ATA emulation (depending on your BIOS)...

Hetz

On Monday 03 November 2003 11:25, Josh Roden wrote:

One of our students tried to install RH9 on a computer with the following:

Mother board: ABIT
Chipset: VIA
Hard disk: Seagate SATA

When he got to the disk formatting part of the installation he got an
error stating that no hard disk was found.
Does anybody have any idea what can be the problem and a
possible solution?

Thank you,
Josh Roden
Hadassah Computer Science



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