On 02/08/2009 10:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > My friend has an external sata hard disk, and likes the hot-plug feature. > However, that works only if the appropriate sata setting in the motherboard > bios is set to AHCI (IDE compatibility and RAID are two other options, but > hot-plugging doesn't work with them). The machine has WinXP atm, while Linux > is about to be installed in the following couple of days. > > Now, on wikipedia I read that AHCI is supported starting from kernel 2.6.19 > and later, while current CentOS 5.2 has 2.6.18. Is it possible to make AHCI > work under 2.6.18 or should I install Fedora instead? AFAIK, Centos5 (RHEL5) has support for this in kernel. $grep SATA /boot/config-2.6.18-92.el5 CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m > > Fedora will become obsolete in a year or so, and I will not be around to > reinstall it again for him, so I would prefer a long-term solution (CentOS). > But I need to be sure that it can be made to do all that fancy > hot-plug-auto-mount-sata-ahci stuff without too much hassle. > > Oh, btw, I am talking about hot-plugging using the sata cable --- usb > connection of course already works, but this is a hard disk and speed > increase is highly nontrivial when using sata connection compared to usb. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! :-) > Marko > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos