Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Hamid
Hamid wrote: I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: Hamid wrote: ... jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.00 seconds = 52.00 MB/sec Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1 I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-08 Thread Hamid
jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.00 seconds = 52.00 MB/sec Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1 I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is simulated as a SCSI disk yes

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: ... I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Hamid
I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamid wrote: I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset) Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing because Woody intaller did not have the support. I should say that the performance of my SATA under

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly

Re: SATA Debian support

2004-03-06 Thread Hamid
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-31 Thread Bryan Andersen
First check to make sure you can run the SATA devices in PATA emulation mode in hardware. If you can't, you will have to build a custom kernel on a different system so you can use it to when you load Debian. If you load using the SATA drives in PATA emulation mode, when you build your new

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-29 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:13:18PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive?

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive? The chipsets are: North Bridge: i865G South Bridge: iCH5-R Can