[mythtv-users] Serial ATA and Gentoo

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 20:27 US/Pacific, Joe Votour wrote:

> I've never used Gentoo, but Serial ATA device support
> is in the kernel.

Yes and no. *Some* SATA controllers are supported in the kernel. Others 
are not. If I recall correctly, the ones that are definitely in there 
are 3Ware's, because they use the same driver as their PATA (Parallel 
ATA = ATA/33/66/100/133/etc) controllers. Not sure off-hand about any 
other SATA controllers.

> As far as I know, there aren't any
> userspace tools required for it.

Nope, just drivers, so far as I know.

> The later Linux 2.4 kernels have support for the
> Silicon Image SATA chipset - my motherboard has one
> integrated, and although I've never had any drives
> connected to it, the chip is at least recognized.

Okay, so at least 3Ware and Silicon Image SATA chipsets are supported 
by the kernel. :)

> There are some binary-only drivers for some other
> chipsets (notably HighPoint), but I don't know how
> recent of a distribution they support (when I was
> shopping for my motherboard, I wanted to make sure
> that there was a decent driver for SATA, should I end
> up using it at some point).

HighPoint... Yes, I believe I recall that's one that definitely doesn't 
work out of the box (which makes installation really fun). Not sure 
about Promise, probably depends if your SATA claims to have a RAID 
controller chip or not. (If it does, it probably won't work easily).

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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