Jim Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:01 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >> I've heard now from more than one source about problems with CentOS >> (and RH) at least up through 5.2 w.r.t. SATA drive handling, and I've >> even reported on this myself in this list before. >> >> My question is, do we have any idea if 5.3 has any improvements in this area? >> >> One of my cohorts here, who happens to be a Fedora fan, says that >> these problems are fixed in F9, but I have grave concerns about >> putting an enterprise lifeline main application on any Fedora release. >> If 5.3 solves these issues, I'd much rather go with that. >> >> Any ideas? Any places I might look to see for myself? > > The only issue I've ever seen has been with the onboard fakeraid stuff > more and more vendors seem to be adding. I've been using SATA disks > with centos since the early 4.x days without issue, so you have me at > a bit of a loss here. I'd say if anything it's due to controller > support, and much of that can be chalked up to what hardware vendors > are pawning off as 'controllers' these days. I recently set up a CentOS 5.2 server with RAID 1 (software) and 2 sata drives. During burn-in I see no problems. I'm using a Supermicro PDSBM series system board. Ben