On Thursday 13 May 2004 02:27 am, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Also, AFAICT Mandrake does not yet support Serial ATA hard drives out of
> the box, and a SATA drive was the reason I was moving off RH9 in the first
> place. �(Yes, I know about legacy IDE mode.)
Hm I use mandrake on my servers and they have supported sata since at least
9.2 which I run a custom version of that I build. It's still thier kernel and
security updates with kde3.2 and all my server packages that I prefer to have
running. I have it doing both mirror and stryping raid on silicone image sata
controlers. It also works with promise controlers.
Which brings me to my next point. With 10.0 writing this from a desktop using
2 maxtor sata drives running off a promise sata controler using striping
raid. 10.0 alos supports the silicone image controler. Oh and this is an
athlon64 system. So I would say it pretty well supports the latest stuff. (.2
is about a year old now and even supports these things.
I'm not sure how much more support you need but I think this covers a very
large percentage of the market already. I dont have any other sata
controllers here to test but it may very well support others also. the main
ones not supported for now is via and sis. Those were just recently added to
the 2.6 kernel and so that is not suprising though.
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