Re: why...?!

sata is working great for me,on etch

On 10/1/06, hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 08:24:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:04:02PM -0400, hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, I avoided SATA drives because they are so new on my AMD64,
> > though I have all the sockets for them on my motherboard. I still
> > eventually gave up on sarge because so much if the hardware was not
> > supported, and went to etch, which did install (though I've has other
> > problems).
> >
>
> Interesting. About nine months ago I installed two amd64 machines with
> dual SATA-II drives in software RAID-1. Worked like a charm with the
> unofficial Sarge installer.

Given that sarge did not support my graphics chip or my ethernet chip,
I thought it would really be tempting fate to try on a SATA drive as
well. Maybe I was wrong.

-- hendrik


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