Topic: SATA - can modules be added for hardware support and how

[richW]

I am still wondering how to get the SATA drives to work in this Dell -  the bios doesn't have an option for them to be emulating IDE drives -
can we use a different modules.cgz and point to it on the install or do we need to replace it on the CD?
Any kind of help will be appreciated - thanks
I thought the new kernel in 6.5.2 beta supported SATA drives.

[Reinhold]

SATA works well under new 2.4 kernel versions (2.4.27+)
http://www.murty.net/ataraid/
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

6.5ß uses - kernel-2.4.20-18.7.i386.rpm

...i.o.w. unless your Motherboard supplies compatibility mode, as you said your Dell doesn't, you are out of luck - yet.

You may want to upgrade your kernel yourself:
http://vanhees.homeip.net/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18&meid=
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19391.0
http://www.wellsi.com/sme/kernel/kernel.html

Please follow the 6.5ß dicussion where ShadLords says:

Unless the stock RH kernel supports SATA then no we don't support that yet.
When we move to RHEL4/CentOS4 then the support should be there.

Regards
Reinhold