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Re: installation/boot trouble in SUPERMICRO P8SAA SATA mode



On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:00:42PM +0000, R. M. Alarcon wrote:
> Is there any advantage of using my sata disks as sata vs pata? And do sw raid 1

Well sw raid works fine, and it what is supported on linux with plain
ide/sata controllers, and it's the fastest raid on linux.

> Are those kernel modules "stable" enough? Or should I just let the bios do the pata-sata translation? It is going to be a production server.

The sata drivers are very stable.  I certainly wouldn't want to use the
emulation mode since that I have had trouble with (like on some Dell
machines where they won't let you turn off emulation).

Len Sorensen



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