I have 3 PCs which all have Gigabyte mobos with onboard PATA and SATA
Raid controllers.
These can be set to not be RAID and under older Linux distros,
Ubuntu/Kubuntu in particular ( and drivatives thereof - ie LinuxMint
etc) I have had no problems with 3 PATA hds and a DVDRW attached to the
"normal" IDE connectors, along with SATA hds attached to the RAID
connectors ( set to BASE in th PC Bios).
Since Ubuntu 8.04 ( and derivatives) I have not been able to :-
1) boot any Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc LiveCD with both PATA and SATA hds attached.
2) successfully install to either a PATA or SATA hd and boot due to
conflicts in the way the system sees drives/partitions. UUID's do not
solve this.
From the Suse Community forums I see that there are problems with
Promise SATA cards/mobos, which is what are on my systems, along with
Grub problems etc.
So, can anybody recommend a Linux compatible SATA PCI card, or a mobo (
hopefully inexpensive) with onboard SATA that is Linux compatible?
As I have several SATA hds with data that I would like to access by
means other than using an older LiveCD or installing an older distro, my
only other option is an external, multi SATA hd case, which I prefer to
avoid.
I have posted re my PATA/SATA problems here before, particularly in
regard to UUIDs.
Thanks
Bill
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