debian and sata drives

[Sean McMahon]

Yet te last time I looked at a 2.6 kernel config the messages said that sada
support was depricated and to use some tool I can't remember the name of for
sada support.  What does that really mean if anything?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: debian and sata drives


> I've not used Debian with a SATA drive, but I've used the last three
> versions of Slackware with SATA drives.  To make a long story short, if
> the kernel doesn't have SATA support compiled in, the drive won't be
> recognized.  In some kernels, especially 2.4.x, the system will hang.  So,
> if the Speakup kernel doesn't have SATA support, you'll have to make a
> custom kernel and use it to install.  SATA is in the SCSI section, under
> low-level drivers for some odd reason.  That means that a SATA kernel also
> needs SCSI disk support.  The SATA drive will show up as a SCSI disk.
> Once it is set up, it works fine.
>
>
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