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An [Acronym] for __S__erial [ATA]. Compare [PATA].
-A cheaper alternative to [SCSI] for connecting [
BlockDevice]
s. The performance of [SATA]-1 compliant hard drives is equivalent with 10,000 [RPM] [SCSI] drives (Ultra160/Ultra320) (provided of course that the [SATA] drive is 10,000 [RPM] and has similar cache).
+A cheaper alternative to [SCSI] for connecting BlockDevice~
s. The performance of [SATA]-1 compliant hard drives is equivalent with 10,000 [RPM] [SCSI] drives (Ultra160/Ultra320) (provided of course that the [SATA] drive is 10,000 [RPM] and has similar cache).
-[SATA] drives are like [SCSI] drives in that they do not just work for boot devices if you are building your own LinuxKernel or with some [
LinuxDistribution]
s.
+[SATA] drives are like [SCSI] drives in that they do not just work for boot devices if you are building your own LinuxKernel or with some LinuxDistribution~
s.
-The reason for this is that they need a driver and the driver is on the disk -
catch 22.
+The reason for this is that they need a driver and the driver is on the disk –
catch 22.
The solution is one of two ways:
* For the relevant drivers build into the LinuxKernel rather than as a [Module]
* Use [initrd(4)] - see InitialRamDisk for more information
-
-!! Serial ATA Hard-Drives/Controllers Usable in Linux
-
-! Silicon Images SiL3112A PCI Two-Port Serial ATA Controller
-
-See [pci/1095:3112] for notes on this.
-
-! Silicon Image Si3114
-
-I got this working using the [Debian Installer|http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/] Beta 4 netinst ISO. At one point it required me to "Execute a shell" and modprobe the sata_sil module manually, but apart from that it was reasonably painless. Kernel 2.6's SATA support was easy to get working using the netinst ISO - I wasn't successful in my attempts at getting it working with 2.4 though.
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