Fredag 07 januar 2005 17:33 skrev Örn Einar Hansen:
Þann Föstudagur 07 janúar 2005 17:10 skrifaði 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?
Well I think the "problem" is that they're trying to figure out where to put it (modulewise long term). And then there's the problem of different vendors pulling in each their direction and the linux developteams trying to figure/sort it all out ;-) So it's a little trial and error and saving some hardware for later use ;-)