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   From: "Paul-B"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: sata ok?   
   Date: 16 Feb 2007 08:46:03 GMT   
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   b#EAL BlackTopBum wrote:   
   > > Been considering going to a sata 2 drive as the only hard drive   
   > > on the system - would have to add a PCI card for this. However,   
   > > doing some reading on the Net suggests that Ubuntu and sata 2    
   > > aren't all that friendly. Is this so? If sata is possible, what   
   > > steps would be recommended?   
   > >    
   > > Thanks for your time,   
   > so long as the kernel has the sata drivers built in you will be ok.   
   > The via-sata and promise-sata are the two most popular drivers.   
   > What chipset is on the external card you bought.  You must make sure   
   > that the card is supported in the kernel (the problem isn't Ubuntu's   
   > though they may have forgot to build the required driver into the   
   > kernel on the live cd...that would stop you cold).   
   >    
   > Another problem would be if your motherboard can't boot from a disk on   
   > the add-in card, or if the add-in card does NOT have a bios chip on   
   > board for bootstrap and disk detection.  You could always build a boot   
   > floppy, boot cd, or maybe a boot flash disk to solve that problem.   
      
   I've installed Ubuntu on PC's with VIA, Silicon Image and ALi chipset   
   SATA without needing a drivers disk. I rarely use IDE drives now,   
   unless I have an odd 30Gb one kicking around which I don't have a use   
   for. Not sure about NVidea, I might try that just to see if it works.   
      
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