question on using sata drive

[volvoguy]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:55:12 -0500, Archie Benton
<archie.benton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just bought a new sata drive and I have it in a machine with a motherboard
> that has a sata port. When I tried to load ubuntu on this drive
> directly, it failed. (it also failed using slackware 10 too). Since
> then, I formated this hard drive with the formater provided by the
> company (Seagate) --to a fat filesystem. I've been able to use it as a
> secondary drive for ubuntu (which I have on an a regular ata drive) by
> creating a mount point for it in the fstab file and using /dev/sda1
> for it. Any thoughts on how I could actually start using it as my main
> drive (thru creative reformating)? This may be a Q for the seagate
> people. I'm uncomfortable using a drive with the fat filesystem on it
> and would like to at least convert it to ext3.

I know for a fact that Slackware 10's default kernel doesn't support
SATA. There were hacked together boot discs all over the mailing lists
and forums when it was released. I never bothered. My SATA drive was a
backup, so I just unplugged the thing and installed Slack on an IDE
drive. The Slack discs wouldn't even boot with a SATA drive attached -
just freeze or spew error messages eternally.

My guess is that there is a similar issue with the kernel that Ubuntu
uses during installation. Because I STILL had my SATA drive unplugged
when I installed Ubuntu, I can't be 100% sure of that though. I'm sure
one of the devs can give a definitive answer.


-- 
Aaron

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