[ale] SATA experience

[Geoffrey]

Philip Polstra wrote:
> Anyone else using a SATA drive on their Linux system?  I'm having the
> hardest time trying to get this to work with Gentoo.  The live CD boots
> fine, and I am to build and install the new system.  I keeps giving me
> errors when I try to reboot into the new system.  I have a Sis 964 chipset
> in my Shuttle system.  I have tried to follow the directions on the Gentoo
> Wiki, but I must be missing something because it won't mount my root
> partition if it is SATA.  This works fine with other older Distros (Debian
> 3.1, FC4, etc.), but I think I'd be better off with Gentoo in the long run.

I've got two sata based systems.  Both installed without a hitch on Suse 
10.0.  The sata drives show up as scsi devices (/dev/sd?)

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Until later, Geoffrey