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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). [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 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. ---- CategoryHardware
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