On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:27 -0600, Adam Fisher wrote: > 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.
I have been running only on SATA for the last year or so with Fedora Core 3. Works great. Home environment, of course. But, I have been using large-scale SATA arrays in production for 3 years now, with no problems (4 terabytes). Only lost one disk out of 28, which is well beyond what statistics say should have happened. Michael > > 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 > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
