Ubuntu, SATA, installation!?

Avi Greenbury avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 26 11:59:41 UTC 2009


On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:29:51 -0700 (PDT)
0 <the_herd_of_the_horses at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Doesn't Ubuntu supportĀ  SATA?
Yes.
> Why only parallel ATA is mentioned as a possible hard disk?
> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/device-names.html
I don't know. SATA (and SCSI) devices are generally named as SCSI,
though (/dev/sd*).

> Which SATA controllers are supported?!
I've not yet come across one that isn't, but the Ubuntu HCL[0] is
incredibly sparse on this. What controller do you have?

[0]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsSerialATAControllers


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