Re: New PC - everything supported by Fedora Core 3 ?

From: James Wilkinson (james_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/20/05

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    Scot L. Harris wrote:
    > I also selected the Plextor PX-716A DVD burner for this unit. I was
    > able to boot from the FC3 iso disks and load FC3 using that drive just
    > fine. I connected it to the black IDE connector on the front edge of
    > the mother board. The only odd thing with this is that FC3 seems to
    > have identified the drive a /dev/hda.

    Why do you think this is odd? The hard drives on this system (as you
    said) are SATA, and the latest Intel chipsets only support one PATA
    ( = traditional IDE) channel, which is the one you'll have put it on.
    So if you've jumpered it as master, it will be the primary master, and
    hence /dev/hda.

    > I am using only SATA type hard drives (four Maxtor 300GB drives).
    > Apparently smartd does not work with SATA drives, or at least not with
    > these SATA drives. For now I have just disabled smartd to prevent the
    > failure message on reboot.

    It is, apparently, coming "very soon":
    http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html#smart

    > I should also note that my motherboard has two SATA controllers, each
    > can support 4 SATA hard drives. The Silicon 3114R controller works out
    > of the box and saw my hard drives. Currently have all four hard drives
    > connected to the Silicon 3114R controller.

    A quick Google suggests that this is connected via a standard PCI
    connection. This could get saturated by simultaneous accesses to only
    two of those disks: just something to bear in mind.

    James. 

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