On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:33:31PM +0100, ?rn Einar Hansen wrote:
?ann F?studagur 07 jan?ar 2005 17:10 skrifa?i Andi Kleen:
Support for many SATA controllers is still somewhat bleeding edge because the drivers tend to be still in development and the chip vendors still often release new chips with different quirks. Not everything was supported well in 2.6.8. If you want you can try a newer KOTD kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/x86_64/ which is based on newer mainline with newer drivers (but no guarantee that it works at all, e.g. similar as in gentoo)
Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't SATA supposed to be the kind that didn't need any "new" drivers, because it was general ATA based? So, that all general ATA drivers should actually work for SATA?
No SATA controller interfaces vary quite a lot. Far more than with PATA. There is a new AHCI interface standard now, but as far as I know only two vendors follow it and even they have some subtle differences. -Andi