Shared Memory

[Ilya Palagin]

Quoting John Wildberger <wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org>:

...
> I see more and more SATA drives being part of packaged computers. 
> What are the
> pro's and con's for them? Are they more difficult to get installed with
> Linux?

It depends on your Linux distro.  For instance, RHES-3 has poor SATA 
support in
the kernel it comes with.  I had to compile one by myself for a server 
with SiI
3112a based controller on-board.  Distributions with newer kernels (after
2.4.21) shouldn't have this problem.
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