Kai Schaetzl wrote: > There have been several threads about SATA in the past weeks and the > problems with it. I'm still not clear, though, if SATA in general is a > problem or just specific functionality or hardware. specific hardware. > Do I understand correctly that "mainboard built-in" SATA RAID is a nono on > CentOS? That I would need a third-party RAID card for this? What about > SATA non-RAID or SATA2? Is SATA supposed to work in general or do the > disks need to run in IDE mode? Do I generally need drivers from the > hardware (mainboard, chipset) vendor or is "normal" SATA supposed to work > with the packaged drivers? > there is no such thing as sata support, as a blanket cover. you need to make sure that the specific chipset / controller is supported ( sort of like Scsi works ). - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq