On July 20, 2004 11:24 am, Geoffrey Leach <geoff(a)direcway.com> wrote:
It is true that SATA support was missing in FC1, as it was first
available in the 2.6 kernel. SATA drivers use /dev/sd? for the disks,
of course.
This isn't strictly true.
Some SATA drivers were available in the 2.4 Kernel and RedHat Enterprise 3.0
came with Silicon Image 3112 support though I am not sure you could install
to it.
As for drive letter assignment that depends on the SATA controller. The
promise you have appears to the system as a SCSI device and thus
uses /dev/sd? lettering. However my VIA SATA controller appears as an ide
device. This is with both controllers being supported via libata.
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