I have never had success and would never use a SATA drive in a production environment with any flavor of Linux. I always prefer SCSI. However, I am volunteering for a non profit organization that went out and bought a 3 thousand dollar server from a company called Mendex. When I tried to install SLES10 it installed like a charm but then it wouldn't find the boot partition. This solution looked promising but didn't fix anything. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/17080.html I just stopped trying because of time constraints and installed FreeBSD which works like a charm with SATA. Thanks for your responses, Adam
>>> "Doran L. Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/7/2006 2:27 PM >>> Adam Fisher wrote: > Does anybody and have walk thru's on installing Suse or Red hat on a > Sata drive. I tried some of Novell's stuff to no avail. Your success will depend largely on the chipset of the SATA controller you employ. Silicon Image 311x controllers are very popular and also fairly well supported. Unless you invest in a high-end hardware RAID solution like LSI's MegaRAID or 3Ware, stay away from SATA RAID solutions. If you need RAID, use the software RAID capabilities built into the Linux kernel. This page will give a starting point for SATA hardware compatibility: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Doran L. Barton, president/CTO, Iodynamics LLC Iodynamics: IT and Web services by Linux/Open Source specialists "Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board" -- Headline seen in a newspaper /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
