SATA II on Slackware 11?

wiyanto84 · 11-20-2006, 03:04 AM

Hello,
i have a plan doing installation with SATA II in slackware 11,
dees Hard drive SATA II 300 detected automatic during installation on default slackware 11 ISO,is it using kernel sata.i during booting ? because i had bad experience using slackware 10.1 where it cant detected SATA during booting... and i searching the forum it said, it must recompiling kernel... wew

thanks in advance b4

bbeers · 11-20-2006, 04:40 PM

I see in the changelogs that sata should be supported:

a/kernel-ide-2.4.33.3-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.3 sata.i kernel.

I have seen some other threads where partition
might be /dev/sdaX instead of old way /dev/hdaX
when using the new sata modules. So if you were
upgrading kernel and modules you might have to
modify your lilo and fstab, but I would imagine
that a clean install from scratch should set
those things correctly.

Try it and if you hit a snag, post back.

HTH,
bbeers