[Cialug] RE: SATA Drives

[David Champion]

albus wrote:
> Oh Great Gods of Linux Land tell me true.
> 
> Does Fedora Core 3 play nice with SATA drives or not?
> Single drive or in a RAID 1 setup?
> 
> If not, what Distro would or could? Mandrake, Debian, ???
> 
> 
> Joel
> 
> PS: Sorry Dave C, I used the wrong  mail address to send with again.

Should work fine in FC3.

We just installed Debian on a Dell server with the Adaptec 8 channel 
SATA RAID controller - the OS didn't need anything special, as the RAID 
volume (raid1) showed up as a single scsi device.

On my personal server I just built, I used the built-in SATA controller, 
and set up a software RAID. I had trouble with Mandrake 10.1 (the 
current release) apparantly there's a bug in the initialization of the 
software RAID, and it only loads the first device. I installed the 
Mandrake 10.2 beta and it worked fine. The Mandrake software RAID tool 
during setup is really easy to use.

-dc