Will it work?

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Will it work?
started by: LinuxSeeker

Posted by LinuxSeeker on April 23 2004,11:12

I have bought and AMD ATHLON 64 processor and an 120GB SATA HDD. Will DamnSmallLinux be able to use them?

Posted by christosvas on April 23 2004,11:38

well use it !!

Posted by spiff on Nov. 01 2004,16:41

I got my SATA 200 GB drive yesterday :P

Plugged it in and booted dsl.. and.. ehh.. well... couldn't find it..

Can anyone write a DSL SATA success story / "how to"?
... or can sata drives not be used with DSL?

Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 01 2004,17:33

You may have to modprobe the SATA loadable module for it to detect the drive since its on the raid portion

I dont believe it loads it as default
Man that would make one screamin a$$ fileserver!!!!

Perhaps < THIS > will help
A search at knoppix forums (DSL Mother distro) might help you find out if its capable of running it...such as

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Seagate 80GB SATA drive works fine for me even without selecting different kernel at boot. It maps as /dev/sda, not /dev/hda. I have a very new motherboard however (VIA K8T800 based ABIT KV8), so I can even boot from SATA (in fact this is my only hard drive). If your harddrive is new, probably all you need is to create some partitions on it ("cfdisk /dev/sda" or whatever).

Hope that helps

Brian
AwPhuch