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Newer page: version 13 Last edited on Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:59:16 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 12 Last edited on Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:49:08 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro Revert
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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 
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-!! Serial ATA Hard-Drives/Controllers Usable in Linux  
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-! Silicon Images SiL3112A PCI Two-Port Serial ATA Controller  
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-See [pci/1095:3112] for notes on this.  
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-! Silicon Image Si3114  
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-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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