Sometimes its difficult to get 'new' features working
on LINUX. I'm not aware of the SUSE SATA solution, so
my comments are on SATA in general. The SATA issue
could be related to your LINUX kernel, motherboard, or
SATA chipset.
Here is an informed discussion and one guy's solution:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33835&sid=01f4f336731be3b6343b12424cd5484f
The above discussion is good because it touches on all
three topics (kernel, mb, chipset).
Many SATA capable motherboards (and PCI-SATA cards)
include the SATA chip (e.g. SiI3112) from Silcon
Image. If you go to this web site:
http://www.siimage.com/home.asp
and search on 'drivers' you will find many varieties
including some LINUX. The navigation tree has good
info too.
Keep in mind that SATA improvements are still an
illusion. Unless you are running an SiI3124 and a
WD740 you will see _no_ benefit over a regular
'parallel' IDE (ATA100/133). And, you will see
increased CPU usage that may actually decrease
application performance. Also, most motherboards have
only SiI3112a which implements NCQ feature in software
(you need at least SiI3124 for H/W NCQ). I'm sticking
to regular IDE (ATA100/133) because the cost of WD740
is as high as 10k SCSI drives and SiI3124 is not
available yet.
(Sorry, I'm too lazy to find all the links supporting
my comments in the last paragraph.)
Good luck.
Regards,
Mike Thomas
- chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> What Kernel is Suse Enterprise running? I'm using
> Suse 8.2 Pro with my own
> compiled 2.4.22 Kernel and it works fine with my
> SATA drives. From what I
> remember SATA drives need 2.4.21 to work properly,
> it was a while ago when I
> did my google research on the subject.
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> Quoting Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>:
>
> > Friday, February 20, 2004, 2:15:33 AM, Grant Allen
> > (Grant.Allen_at_towersoft.com.au) wrote:
> > GA> Jonathan - thanks heaps, the ignoreSysPrereqs
> =
> > GA> switch worked a treat on RH9.0, so I now have
> side-by-side 9.2 and 10.1
> > =
> > GA> installs.
> >
> > You're welcome. I'm embarrassed to say that I got
> in a big
> > rush (deadline pressure) and bought a copy of SuSE
> > Enterprise. Now I see that I've basically spent
> about $800
> > more than I needed to spend, and, as fate would
> have it, I
> > didn't even need it for the deadline I was rushing
> to meet.
> > Go figure. SuSE Enterprise doesn't recognize my
> SATA drives,
> > so in the end I may not even end up using it.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
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> are
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