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On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 09:58:19PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > David Kramer wrote: > >>Or, if you're really concerned about > >>performance, buy a SATA controller... > > > >My motherboard already does SATA, but it's my understanding this is > >still experimental in Linux. > > I hadn't heard that. I just assumed that the differences between PATA > and SATA would be dealt with by the controller chip and would have > minimal, if any, impact on the IDE driver. > Ha. I wish. SATA is handled by a completely different set of drivers; old kernels won't have these and cannot use SATA drives. New kernels display them as SCSI drives. -dsr-
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