An Acronym for Serial 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

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

See also:

• Silicon Images product page
• Serial ATA (SATA) Linux Support on LinuxQuestions.org

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