On 5/24/07, Robert Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need a sata pci card to allow my suse 10.1 system to see a 320 GB sata drive. Any recommendations?
Sata is rapidly improving in the kernel, so I would upgrade to 10.2 if I was going to rely on Sata. ie. 10.2 has a rewritten Error Handling routine (EH) that took almost a year to get developed and into the kernel. 10.1 has the original EH that basically just fails a drive when it encounters an error. The new one goes thru a whole series of graceful degradations. Several of the advanced functions like hot-plugging were not supportable with the old EH. See http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix for the Sept. 06 status matrix. That should have been accurate for 10.2. Lots of big improvements since then, 10.3 should have very solid Sata support, including: CD / DVD devices, NCQ, Hot-plugging, and hopefully all the Sata drivers moved to the new EH. (The last one is currently being tested.) FYI: 3ware is a SCSI device from the kernel perspective, so this discussion does not relate. If you are going to stay with 10.1, I would strongly consider a 3ware controller. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
