To John or Robert

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: To John or Robert
started by: poppe

Posted by Guest on Feb. 18 2006,21:32

Will we see support for serial ATA drives anytime soon?

Posted by roberts on Feb. 18 2006,22:02

yes

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 19 2006,04:15

In the meantime, if you still need SATA support, please fall back to using DSL version 2.1b and then boot with this command:

dsl sata

Posted by puresilver on Feb. 25 2006,07:38

Does this support all SATA controllers ? I have an MSI NForce 3 motherboard and can't seem to access the SATA drives after I booted DSL 2.1 w/ dsl sata after brining up the F3 menu.

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 26 2006,20:42

It supports all SATA controllers that are supported by the linux 2.4.31 kernel version.

The drives should appear as SCSI emulated devices, IE:

/mnt/sda1

etc

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 26 2006,20:44

Also, make sure that your BIOS is set for the proper operating mode for your SATA controller.

Sometimes, if you set your drives for LEGACY mode or PATA emulation mode, they will not work with the linux SATA drivers.