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?
I am running testing here on a 200G sata drive on an Asus P5P800 no problems at all, though strangely grub would not install, but lilo did, so it is fine. It is an Intel ICH5 controller. -- Bill