Fedora Core 1 and SATA drives

ThatEvoGuy · 03-18-2004, 05:20 PM

I'm about to purchase a new Dell computer that comes with SATA drives (however this decision is not 100% yet). Has anyone successfully installed FC1 on a system with SATA? I have kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl and I'm not sure if this will support SATA.

With that said, I'm pretty sure FC2 will support it, so I may hold off until the stable version comes out.

Thanks in advance!

PredDave · 03-19-2004, 09:47 AM

I successfully installed Fedora Core 1 on a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz PC with a Western Digital 80 GB SATA drive ( 7200 RPM, 8 MB cache ).

I have had no problems at all.

My Serial ATA drive is installed as device "hde" since "hda", "hdb", "hdc", and "hdd" are reserved for the IDE ports.

ThatEvoGuy · 03-19-2004, 10:39 AM

That's what I wanted to hear!!!

Thank you for the info!

Here are the specs of the Dell Dimension 8300 I'm about to order:
P4 HT 3.2ghz/800FSB
1GB Dual Channel DDR ram
128mb DDR GeForce FX 5200
2 120gig SATA drives (not in a raid config)

I didn't want to spend the money now if I had to wait for a stable FC2......