Bob Gorman wrote:
At 02:54 PM 4/29/2004, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 04:20, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>
>>>>1) Is SATA support working now for either chipset on that motherboard?
>>>>(Intel ICH5/ICH5R Chipset)
>>>>
>>
>>I found a page on Intel's site that said that newer kernels support SATA
>>on the ICH5 chipset, but only in legacy mode:
>>
>>http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-006312-prd40.htm
>>
>>Whereas MSI (the manufacturer of the motherboard I've got on order) states
>>that WinXP can do SATA in Native mode.
>>
>>1) Is there any advantage to running in Native mode? (IOW, is it worth it
>>to purchase WinXP?)
>>
>>2) Does anybody know if Native mode support is coming to linux?
>
>Enhanced SATA (not Legacy) already works in Fedora Core and RHL 8,0/9
>with newer kernels. I had to install RHL 8.0 in Legacy mode, then I
>could upgrade the kernel and use Enhanced mode.
>
>I think that the Legacy in BIOS bit was a part of another solution.
Enhanced ICH5 is fine in Enhanced Mode with SATA. It's the RAID option (ICH5R) that
requires Legacy Mode to work. I just use software RAID instead. The ICH5R isn't true
hardware RAID anyway, from what I've read.
Doesn't software raid also have more tools for recovery? Less
hardware dependent?
I set up my new computer with software raid after reading the about
the above points. I took what I read to be true.
BTW, the FC1 kernel did recognize my SATA controller (SI) and the raid
that I set up with the BIOS. I removed the HW raid after reading
about recovery and raid tools.
--
Robin Laing