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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

On Friday 26 September 2003 09:40 pm, Craig Dyke wrote:
Hi Craig,
I have SATA Western Digital working very well under kernel 2.4.22.  I use 
motherboard Abit NF7-S which has the Sil3112a controller.  Earlier kernel 
versions would, 2.4.21, would recognize the SIL3112A controller, but leave 
the disk in PIO mode.  2.4.22 recognizes the controller and sets it to 
UDMA-133.  You have to rebuild the kernel and set all the Nvidia configs in 
"make menuconfig" to get it to work right.  The NF7-S mobo has the nforce2 
chipset for which 2.4.22 has native support.

Only problem with the SATA is the disk busy LED will not light when disk is 
busy!  Funny thing is Win2K does light the  LED when accessing the SATA disk. 
 
Probably a problem in the SIL3112A driver.  Don't know.

JohnC
Powderly, Texas

> Hello all
>
> Was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting SATA hard drives to
> perform under our version of Linux?
>
> I am about to build a new PC and was intrigued by the new hardware
> available.
> Most of the searches I have performed don't appear too favourable, but,
> being
> in Australia I have noted that our US friends have been playing with them
> longer
> and may have come up with some solutions?
>
> Craig
>
>
>
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