Re: [eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-11-24 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:22:45PM -0500, Linux Rocks! wrote: > What about MCA Let's leave that one dead, shall we? > we wont mention the oddball ones like std-32 or pc104 PC-104 was an ISA bus in a pinheader format. If you can imagine the 3.5 drive adapters designed to connect a 3.5 drive

Re: [eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-11-24 Thread Linux Rocks !
On Monday 24 November 2003 05:12 pm, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:06:02AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: : > My P4P800 motherboard has two SATA connectors. Does that mean : > I could hook up a max of two SATA drives to it? : : Yes, just two drives. You've got a hybrid system wit

Re: [eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-11-24 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:06:02AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > My P4P800 motherboard has two SATA connectors. Does that mean > I could hook up a max of two SATA drives to it? Yes, just two drives. You've got a hybrid system with the typical limitations of hybrid systems: the new technology is sup

Re: [eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-11-24 Thread Bob Miller
Mr O wrote: > In reply to an OLD mail... I haven't yet gotten the chance to > install linux on SATA. I'm still using IDE drives. But, as far > as Windows is concerned it treats it like another PATA drive so > it should be quite simple to add more storage via SATA and even > do software RAID should

Re: [eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-11-23 Thread Mr O
In reply to an OLD mail... I haven't yet gotten the chance to install linux on SATA. I'm still using IDE drives. But, as far as Windows is concerned it treats it like another PATA drive so it should be quite simple to add more storage via SATA and even do software RAID should ye desire. As for maki

[eug-lug]Serial ATA and Linux?

2003-08-18 Thread Bob Miller
Has anyone here used Serial ATA (SATA) disks with Linux? My Intel D865PERL motherboard has two SATA controllers on board, and I'm thinking about getting a SATA disk drive for it. (The other IDE busses are full.) Anyone know whether it'll work? -- Bob Miller K kbobs