Topic: Serial ATA on SME

[isi]

Hello,

I've got a Maxdata Server and there is an Serial Ata controller inside atached with 2 SATA HDD's.

Does SME support Serial Ata?.

Because during booting from CD the system Hangup on detecting the Harddisks. The last message is :

hde: atached ide-disk driver.

Thanks for reading

[sahosting]

Hi....

I the suggestions post... here is the quote listed that might be helpful for you:

"sme 6.5RC1 has some support for SATA & appears to be quite stable even though it is still at Release Candidate stage. sme 7 (alpha 5 under development) does support SATA."

curtis =)

[isi]

Hi Curtis,

thx for your reply.   I will download and test SME 7.0

I hope it will run.  

cu

[wyron]

We should very much like to hear about any succes, but don't bet on it!
The problem will not be the drives, but the controller, I'm afraid.
The only controllers I know of that are supported, will be the 3ware cards.
. . But I should love to be proved wrong!
Anyway I just use software RAID on my drives. It reduces  hardware cost, with the same failover security.

[rcpettit]

I had that same problem.  Updated the kernel using a contrib from this site.  Worked just fine after that.

[isi]

I've downloaded SME 7.0 Beta 6.

And it detectcs correctly my Serial Ata interfaces and the HDD'S.

It works fine. But almost Beta  

Cu and thx