[NTLUG:Discuss] SATA 3.0GB/sec

[Stuart Johnston]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Todd Robinson wrote:
>> I don't recall much talk on how robust SATA compat. is for Linux these 
>> days. What driver and/or Linux core version and/or distros can reliably 
>> handle SATA 3.0GB/sec hard drives? You can get 300GB HDs, 7200rpm, 
>> 3GB/sec for < $100 now.
>> Also, decent motherboards that can handle the same would be nice to 
>> know, especially ones that can use AMD CPUs in the ATX or smaller form 
>> factor.
> 
> Unless it's some kind of bizarre new SATA chipset, I say it's no
> problem at all.  Just realize that the fake-RAID that so many
> chipsets and BIOS's want to use by default, may not work.  

Has anyone used dmraid?  It seems to allow you to take advantage of your 
fake-RAID BIOS in combination with the linux 2.6 device-mapper.

-Stuart