On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:13:18PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2.
> >
> >Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives.
> >
> >Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a
> >SATA hard drive?
> >
> >The chipsets are:
> > North Bridge: i865G
> > South Bridge: iCH5-R
> >
> >Can anyone point me to some good documentation relating to SATA and
> >linux?
>
> not sure what R in ICH5-R means (I have intel D865-PERL motherboard
> with ICH5, at least I think it's ICH5 and SATA works)
maybe raid? Apparently it supports onboard raid(0) - though hopefully
it will function as an ordinary iCH5 with only one disk.
>
> you need fairly recent kernel (2.4.22 or something like that). Note
> that if you are using HD that's above 130GB you might need even newer
> kernel.
>
> I use 2.4.21-ac4 with libata5 patches (ac4 for SATA, libata5 for
> >130GB support)
>
> SATA disks can be seen as ide of scsi, I have only had success with
> scsi (kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y), otherwise the syustem
> freezes right after the disks are detected
>
> erik
>
>
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David Purton
dcpurton@chariot.net.au
For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
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