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Old 30-09-2006, 03:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I want to know that is there any version of Linux supporting SATA HDD. I ve heard that Linux doesn't support SATA drives. My PC config is:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
512 DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte GA-M51GM (Nvdia 6100 based)
200 GB Hitachi SATA-2 HDD

Plz suggest me a version of Linux good enough for this configuration.
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Old 30-09-2006, 04:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The latest version of Puppy linux supports sata, eve though I have not personally tested it.http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
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Lots of recent distros work with SATA. Whichever fool told you that linux doesn't work with SATA must be still living in 20th century.
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Yeah there are some fools going around spreading superstitions about what linux really is. I wouldnt be surprised it Linux gets marked as a worm by them either.
All distros worth thier salt support SATA and whatever they say it doesnt support.
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@Sandeep, all the latest Linux distros support SATA. You can try Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core 5,
Suse 10.1 or Mandriva 2006 Linux. Any of these will do.
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fedora core too!

i have tried my seagate HDD with ubutu 5.10,6.06 & fc5 allworked out of box even u dont need to install drivers from floppy
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thanx for ur replies. Infact I tried old distros like Suse 9.1, Mandrake 10 etc and they didn't work. So someone told me Linux is not compatible with SATA. I will try newer versions now.
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Older versions do work too but you will have to recompile the kernel and add SATA support to it. That's it.
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thanx for ur replies. Infact I tried old distros like Suse 9.1, Mandrake 10 etc and they didn't work. So someone told me Linux is not compatible with SATA. I will try newer versions now.
well i have installed Mandrake 10 and it worked for me without any trouble
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afaik 2.6 release kernels have sata support for most chips and keep adding...few hdds are missing support in kernel 2.6
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
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