SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Wackojacko wrote:

> AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 
> kernels deal with SATA drives.  2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the 
> appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc.  2.6 has native SATA support 
> and thus the drives are 's'da etc.

So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel?

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