Re: FC3 install on SATA

[kockkin ko <kockkinko@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Has anyone had any luck with installing either i386 or x86_64 to SATA on
> > an AMD64?
Absoulely no problem with my MSI Neo KT800 board with a SATA drive. 
It worked instantly with FC2, FC3 test3, and now FC3.
MSI and Fedora development community have a good match on this
particular board.

>Can someone tell me what's the performance-wise difference >between a
SATA and a normal (PATA) disk? The only >difference I see is that SATA
is taking
>up less bus/cable space inside my cabinet, thus allowing a >better
ecycling of air :-)

some days ago, I did an investegation:
PATA: 133 Mbytes/sec
SATA: 150 Mbytes/sec (currently) 
>From a web reading, it said: "Current sata drive in the market that I
have is simply a PATA with an internal serial converter inside."
>From this point, I knew, I wasted my money.

>I'm running a FTP server and I can tell the difference when >about 5
people are simultaneously copying files (700MB >each). Is there no
other difference between the disks or will I >have to install any more
drivers and stuff?

Thank you for this data.
It confirmed I wasted my money with SATA, indeed!!!!

Not to mentioned the heartache I have to install my other favorite distros: 
free BSD, gentoo, LFS...... ooh I got more enough heartache and
frustration to boot them!!!!!!!! ......... Kernel panic, never able to
find the root partition.
Other distros? ... Not even able to find the drive from the start of
the installation.  Disapointed!!!!!

Appreciate anyone with any hint and suggestions.

Regards,

kockkin ko

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