[H-GEN] SATA drives under Linux

[Paul Gearon]

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

This isn't related to Linux, but if you put an older Parallel-ATA drive into 
the box then many motherboards won't let you boot from the SATA drives.  This 
is a pain if you have a perfectly working system, and you decide to throw in a 
second cheaper drive (for whatever reason).  In this case you'll suddenly 
discover that you can't boot.

It's easy to fix by putting a boot loader on the PATA drive.  No big deal, but 
you did ask if there are any gotchas.

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