I just recently acquired a 300GB SATA drive and have intentions to use it in my first attempt at building a file/print server for my home. I have found some scattered information about using SATA with linux but nothing very clear (to me at least). The box I want to use was free but it is pretty old and that’s what I am worried about. It’s running a PIII 555, so I wonder if that is sufficient “horsepower” for what I plan on doing. The SATA controller card I have supposedly has a Silicon Image chipset that is supported by libata and I imagine that I could get though patching the kernel if it is anything like installing the livna repository (I figure they have names that kinda look alike so it should be basically the same…). Anyone out there that has some experience with this kind of stuff that could give me some pointers or heads up before I dive in? You might save me a few weeks of wasted time.

 

Zak

 

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