Linux with SATA

[sandeepkochhar]

I want to know that is there any version of Linux supporting SATA HDD. I ve heard that Linux doesn't support SATA drives. My PC config is:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
512 DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte GA-M51GM (Nvdia 6100 based)
200 GB Hitachi SATA-2 HDD

Plz suggest me a version of Linux good enough for this configuration.
Thanx

 

[Ramakrishnan]

The latest version of Puppy linux supports sata, eve though I have not personally tested it.*www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

 

[mehulved]

Lots of recent distros work with SATA. Whichever fool told you that linux doesn't work with SATA must be still living in 20th century.

 

[QwertyManiac]

Yeah there are some fools going around spreading superstitions about what linux really is. I wouldnt be surprised it Linux gets marked as a worm by them either.
All distros worth thier salt support SATA and whatever they say it doesnt support.

 

[JGuru]

@Sandeep, all the latest Linux distros support SATA. You can try Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core 5,
Suse 10.1 or Mandriva 2006 Linux. Any of these will do.

 

[gary4gar]

^^^
fedora core too!

i have tried my seagate HDD with ubutu 5.10,6.06 & fc5 allworked out of box even u dont need to install drivers from floppy

 

[sandeepkochhar]

thanx for ur replies. Infact I tried old distros like Suse 9.1, Mandrake 10 etc and they didn't work. So someone told me Linux is not compatible with SATA. I will try newer versions now.

 

[mehulved]

Older versions do work too but you will have to recompile the kernel and add SATA support to it. That's it.

 

[gary4gar]

thanx for ur replies. Infact I tried old distros like Suse 9.1, Mandrake 10 etc and they didn't work. So someone told me Linux is not compatible with SATA. I will try newer versions now.

well i have installed Mandrake 10 and it worked for me without any trouble

 

[praka123]

afaik 2.6 release kernels have sata support for most chips and keep adding...few hdds are missing support in kernel 2.6
*linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html