I have to say the 3/6 months is my opionion/guestimate. I could be proven wrong (happens quite offen ;-). But I've burned 3 weeks on trying to get the sata to work with help from lists.suse.com but I've real work to do so I'm going back to tried/trusted/expensive SCSI (all my previous computers were SCSI)
Yes, by me SCSI too in past. Yes, I have burned many weeks also for AMD 64 Bit with Shuttle-Mainbord and SATA in combination with SCSI (Boot problems from SATA drive). SATA drives are more silent than SCSI harddisks and cheaper. Additional are problems with IDEDMA on SATA. Filesystem crashs in combination with reiserfs and DMA mode. And I have to work another things again in future. But I found a configuration on a longer time which is working fine. I wrote it already in this mailing list. I hope that it stays. Gruss Lothar and Happy Christmas. --