Mark Weaver wrote:
David Corrigan wrote:
> I'm about to install Fedora Core 3 on an SATA harddrive, anyone have
> any tips or advice before I start? I've heard about some peoples
> problems and want to do my best to avoid them.
>
> David.
>
Hi David,
My experience with FC3 and SATA drives is it really depends on the
controller and whether or not the CD drive is IDE or not. I recently
had the unpleasant experience of attempting to install FC3 on an HP
Proliant and no matter how hard we tried and no matter what we tried
it wouldn't go on correctly. We'd get the system to install ok, but it
wouldn't boot. kept on dying in the first stages of the boot with
kernel panic because it couldn't see the partitions where the OS was
located.
the problem came down to a catch 22 because of the particular kernel
driver that "had" to be present in order to be able to install and run
FC with the controller that was in the machine. Had we been trying to
install RH Enterprise Linux that would have been a different story.
What we finally ended up doing was installing Mandrake 10.0 on this
machien and its running fine. My advice to you is to research fully
your hardware compatibility before embarking.
Just installed FC3 on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Socket 939 with a 120GB
SATA drive. No problems that I've noticed. Uses the nv_sata driver.
It just worked as they say.
Bob...