Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:31:07PM -0500, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point > I can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? Or do we still have > a way to go yet? Just thought I'd add a couple of pointers to more informa

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: > The other path makes SATA support into Just Another Device Driver. In > practice, this means think of SATA as SCSI. You need the right driver or > you go nowhere. This is also the same on both doze and nix. For nix, it > means

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point I > can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? Or do we still have a > way to go yet? As I understand it, when it comes to SATA, there are two paths. One p

Re: Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 21, 2005, at 17:31, Fred wrote: Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point I can buy a SATA motherboard "blind" and not worry? No. I did that and I'm spending lots of time digging through Google tonight. The disk (Segate) works fine in PATA emulation mode but,

Speaking of SATA... (was flame war...)

2005-02-21 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:33 -0500, Bob Bell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > No, I'm not. If my server has a new mass storage controller that > > isn't recognized by the 2.4 kernel, but is recognized by the 2.6 > > controller, then d