On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:52:57AM -0600, Zak Johnson wrote: > 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. >
Silicon Image stuff is supported pretty well. Assuming everything works, your SATA controller will show up as a SCSI controller, and your disk will be something like /dev/sda. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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