Red Hat Linux & SATA Support

[kaziah]

Hello everyone =)

I've got a nice shiny new computer here that I just built, and I've installed WinXP Pro on it, but Red Hat's installer doesn't recognize my Seagate SATA drives so I can't have Linux for now and I'm really missing it!! =(

I did a little research online over the last half hour or so and it seems there are a lot of problems similar to the one I'm having. I guess it's not fully supported yet or something... I'm not geeky enough to try patching my kernel by myself, and no telling what other steps I might have to take to try to get this to work, so I was just wondering if anyone knew the low down on when I can expect SATA support in Red Hat?

So, where does a guy go to find out what new technologies are being developed and when they can be expected? ...for the linux kernel, or even a specific distro I mean? SATA support would be a kernel issue right? So in other words, if this is already being developed, where would I go to find out when I can expect it to show up in my favorite distro? or in the kernel if that's where it will be?

I'm still real new to the Linux community, so I admit, I have no clue where to look, or for that matter even what I'm doing if it's more complicated than a simple problem =)

Oh, I tried a search at redhat.com but I only found posts dealing with specific problems; I didn't see anything about when I could expect SATA support included in an upcoming version... and I looked on distrowatch too, but no luck there either... maybe I just didn't look hard enough though =)

Anyway... I'll stop rambling... if anyone could give me some info or let me know where to look, I'd be very greatful =)

Thank you,
Kaziah

[pbharris]

hello,
i am running redhat with a SATA drive now, i don't boot off it, but i did load a bootlaoder to see if it wold work and it did.

the defauld kernel was patched for sata support (the si3112) and is pretty wasy to set up,
i put this at the end of sysinit:

echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hda/settings

i created a file that does what hdparm does - for me my sata drive is hda

[root@bugs ~]cat /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda 

USE_DMA=1
MULTIPLE_IO=16
EIDE_32BIT=3
EXTRA_PARAMS=-X69
[root@bugs ~]