Re: SATA support at the kernel level?



On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, ***** charles wrote:

Hi all,

Which stable kernel officially supports SATA?
If the distro has that version or later, shouldn't
I be able to load the OS from scratch when
booting to the cd? Some of the newer mother-
boards have raid sata capabilities. Will the
newer distros handle that as well?

I suggest you read this page:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

From the referenced page:
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Note: There is no such thing as a distribution or its installer (generically) "having SATA support" (or not). Please send anyone speaking in such terms to this page. (Some SATA chipsets have been supported since practically forever, as their programming interfaces are unchanged from PATA predecessors. Others are brand-new and require new drivers from scratch.)
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