Re: Sata 3

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:56:19 +1000, GeraldCC wrote:

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> It does seem to me, at least, the kernel does not really support Sata 3
> out of the boxes. This is a new box, and I have just upgraded it to all
> Sata 3 drives. When it only had 1 Sata 3 drive and 2 Sata 2 drives it
> ran all Linuxes with no trouble. But then they were not running raid1. I
> will now try straight installations with no raid components and see if
> it changes the way systems work. I will have Sata 3 to Sata 2, but
> working in Sata 3 ports.

Try to configure the SATA 3 host controller for using AHCI, if possible.

> Certainly with a raid1 system all versions of Linux,if they run at all,
> do not work as expected!!

Fakereaid (dmraid) is always problematic. Or by "raid1" you meant 
"software" raid (mdraid) or "hardware" (dedicated controller) raid?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón