SATA drives on Linux

From: Anton Erasmus (junk_at_junk.net)
Date: 07/06/03 

Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 10:10:10 +0200

Hi,

As far a I understand, from a hardware point of view the
new serial ATA controllers looks like an IDE controller to the OS.
The motherboards I have been looking at that supports SATA drives
also has support for IDE drives. Now if one wants to use a SATA drive
for Linux, should one somehow disable aome/all of the IDE controller
in BIOS ? Can someone who has actually used these new drives give some
clarity on what is involved in using SATA drives with Linux ?

Regards
  Anton Erasmus

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