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Title: Install SME on a machine with a SATA disk ??
Post by: cyberdude on November 17, 2004, 08:57:44 PM

Hi!

Is it possible to install SME 6.0 on a machine with a SATA HD installed ??

We are planning to buy a new machine with such a drive in it, and asking because i have some trouble with ver. 5.5 where a normal IDE drive was jumped as cable-select and then failed to finde the HD - first when the disk was jumped as master it succeeded to install....

Title: SME and SATA
Post by: Jáder on November 18, 2004, 11:56:50 AM

It´s possible... but something dificult.

I have it working... but have spent some time till discover howto.

As usual was this forum who helped :D

Basically you should choose compatibility mode on BIOS and install as usual.

Maybe with a new kernel (a later install) you can get it working in normal mode.
 
I´m not sure if worth his cost!

Jáder

Title: Install SME on a machine with a SATA disk ??
Post by: SMEmike on November 18, 2004, 03:48:14 PM

jader.

I have successfully installed SME 6.01 on an Intel motherboard with SATA harddisk with the BIOS set to compatibility mode.  
I note that in Canada SATA and IDE are now the same price for the same size disk.

Cheers,
SMEmike.

Title: Install SME on a machine with a SATA disk ??
Post by: Reinhold on November 18, 2004, 09:26:02 PM

SMEmike,

Please specify type and bios version of your "Intel" mainboard.
VERY important: Does DMA access work ?
-iow- What is your throughput ?

Thanks

Regards
Reinhold