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

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Marc Shapiro wrote:
> 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?
It depends on the motherboard chipset and whether it has kernel support, 
but mostly yes AFAICT.

Wackojacko