<DIV>right now I'm runnig FC3 but I'll upgrade to fedora 8 in a wee bit. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cards I'm thinking of (only because MicroCenter carries them) </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1) Syba SY-VIA-150R</DIV> <DIV>chipset: VIA VT6421L </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Syba's site has a penguin next to the card but Linux is not officially listed as a supported OS. I can only take that to mean that someone somewhere has gotten this card to work with some distro of linux. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>this doc: <A href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html">http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>says: (<A href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#via6421"><STRONG>link</STRONG></A><A name=via6241></A>) <STRONG>VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 and VT6421L PCI chips</STRONG> &mdash fakeraid. A libata-dev patch was <A href="http://lwn.net/Articles/122290/"><STRONG>posted</STRONG></A> on
2005-02-06. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2) SY-JM363-2S1P express </DIV> <DIV>chipset JMicron 363</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Syba web site says it supports AHCI. </DIV> <DIV>this doc: <A href="http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware%2C_driver_status">http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware%2C_driver_status</A> </DIV> <DIV>from Jesse says chipset supports AHCI in kernel 2.6.24.4. Sounds like AHCI supports more SATA stuff natively w/o relying on software shim type stuff ? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>so am i good ? i dunno i mean it seems like I'm gold but all this talk of Linux not supporting SATA had me spooked so i figured i'd double check.</DIV> <DIV><B><I></I></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>ak <brian@planetshwoop.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>Support probably does vary between different kernel levels<BR>(2.4.* vs
2.6.*), but if one is forced to make a broad<BR>statement, yes, SATA is supported by Linux. Thousands of<BR>people run SATA without problems.<BR><BR>The best way for us to help would be for your to post the names<BR>of some of the cards you are considering and the specific<BR>version of Linux you're on.<BR><BR>brian<BR><BR>-- <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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