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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 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.

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.

! 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.

I didn't get this going with [Debian] Sarge installer until I put linux26 on the command line so I agree that this controller doesn't work under Linux 2.4.27. I am having problems building a custom [Kernel] with this. I think it is because I am not building an initrd image. Trying to get around it by building into the [Kernel] directly rather than as a [Module]. Will update notes with my progress on this - otherwise I might have to learn initrd -- IanMcDonald

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