On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Sliger</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:chaz@bctonline.com">chaz@bctonline.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">









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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Does CentOS 4 work well with SATA drives?</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Or should I build the system using IDE/PATA disks?</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm looking for stability more than speed.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote></div>There is a chance your hardware is made of some obscure matter so that CentOS 4 kernel doesn&#39;t like it, but usually SATA and SATA2 are recognized automatically in the installation. Some hardware are not recognized automatically, so that you must use a floppy disk driver in CentOS installation (correct me if I&#39;m wrong), but I have only heard about that (never happened to me). Some hardware are just not compatible with CentOS. I guess most are compatible.
<br><br>Mine is SATA2 on chipset from ICH7 family (motherboard Intel 945GNT), and CentOS installation chose the driver/module ata_piix for it. Just worked out of the box.<br><br>