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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:02:35 pm by CraigBox Revert
Older page: version 4 Last edited on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:05:11 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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 An [Acronym] for __S__erial [ATA]. 
  
 A high speed alternative for [SCSI] harddrives. The performance of [SATA]-1 compliant devices is equivalent with 10,000 [RPM] [SCSI] drives (Ultra160/Ultra320). 
  
-!! Serial ATA Hard-Drives/Controllers Useable in Linux 
+!! Serial ATA Hard-Drives/Controllers Usable in Linux 
  
 ! Silicon Images SiL3112A PCI Two-Port Serial ATA Controller 
  
 FedoraCore 1 recognises this hardware when booting from CD. It will also will happily install/boot to/from a 160 [GB] [SATA] [HDD] from [CDROM] after it recognises and configures the Silicon Images [PCI] card. 
  
-''ElroyLiddington says "Serial ATA -> controllers -> SiI3112/3112A -> SiI3112A: Linux SATA Drivers" , but it's not clear on which site that is supposed to be .'' --AristotlePagaltzis  
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-See also:  
-* [Silicon Images product page | http://www .siimage.com/products/storage.asp]  
-* [Serial ATA (SATA) Linux Support | http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/07/1 /51535] on [ LinuxQuestions.org | http://www.linuxquestions.org/]  
+It seems that there 's a 2.4.x patch , the driver is in 2 .6, and there 's a binary driver provided as well . Read [about the SiL3112A Linux driver thread |http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history /51535] at ~ LinuxQuestions. 
  
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