Re: S-ATA under Linux

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:19:04 +0000, Paul Colquhoun wrote:


I'm running Linux (Gentoo) on a Tyan Tomcat K8E-SLI (S2866) with 4 SATA
drives.

No problems so far, and it's been running for a few months.

Is actually the kernel or the Linux distribution crucial for
a proper support of S-ATA?



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: S-ATA under Linux
    ... Christian Christmann wrote: ... drives. ... a proper support of S-ATA? ... the support is of course in the kernel, but unless you want to compile ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • [PATCH 18-rc2] Fix typos in /Documentation : N-P
    ... Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, ... -the kernel. ... There are two options specific to PSX driver portion. ... The driver uses the settings from the EEPROM set in the SCSI BIOS ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: disk speed regression kernel 2.6.29 and after
    ... When I installed kernel 2.6.30, ... I currently have 3 hard drives hooked up. ... ACPI: ... CPU: L2 Cache: 512K ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?
    ... I am curious if anyone else has had major problems with SATA drives on ... basis for my kernel build and test processes. ... Because I focused on hardware as the reason for the failure I ... # AX.25 network device drivers ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • athlon-xp + fakeraid regression
    ... The build completes fine, the kernel boots fine, the machine will seem to be fine as long as it remains quiescent. ... At the beginning, just after hitting enter on the make command, one of the ad4 disk light goes on solid for several seconds. ... There is a well known thing where these cheap pata fakeraid cards will try to do ata133 if the drive says it can, when really, even if he drives are new ata133 drives and the cables are new and short and shielded, you still shouldn't try to do ata133 since the spec is too tight and you'll just get bit errors or other failures. ... The fix is use ata100 somehow, either by disabling dma entirely in loader.conf (since you have no more selective option there, and the raid card bios never has an option for controlling pio/dma mode like motherboard bios's have) and then use atacontrol in rc.early to set udma5, or by using disks that can only do ata100 and only advertise ata100 to the controller. ...
    (freebsd-current)