An Acronym for Serial ATA. A high speed alternative for SCSI harddrives. The SATA-1 standard is currently equivalent performance wise with a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive, (Ultra160/Ultra320).

Serial ATA Hard-Drives/Controllers Useable in Linux

• Silicon Images "SiL3112A" PCI Two-Port Serial ATA Controller - FedoraCore 1 recognises this hardware when booting from CD

  • Also will happily install/boot to/from a 160GB Serial ATA HDD from CD-ROM after it recognises and configures the Silicon Images PCI Card

  • Links: http://www.siimage.com/products/storage.asp#soft

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/07/1/51535 Serial ATA -> controllers -> SiI3112/3112A -> SiI3112A: Linux SATA Drivers NOTE: The driver location instruction above was Plagiarised? from the above link/s ;)

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