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 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 at LinuxQuestions.

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