[H-GEN] SATA drives under Linux

[Sarah Walters]

Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com wrote:
> I'm looking at buying a box with SATA controller and disc drives.
> 
> Does anyone know of any problems or gotchas running Linux 
> (probably Mandrake 10 and Fedora 2) on such hardware?

I'm running Mandrake 9.2, no problems. Kernels older than 2.4.22 won't 
boot though (eg SuSE 8).

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Sarah Walters
Systems Programmer, Software Infrastructure
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland, Australia
Phone: (07) 33654359
Email: s.walters at its.uq.edu.au