Yep, I got one of the SX270's and tried for a week to get some distro of
Linux to load on it. The only one that would was knoppix.
Todd
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 19:18, R P Herrold wrote:
> just found on another list
>
> -- Russ Herrold
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:59:39 -0500
> From: John_Hull@dell.com
> To: aly.dharshi@uleth.ca, linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: RE: SATA and RH 9 Woes
>
> The SX270 has SATA drives using Intel's ICH5 SATA controller. There's
> currently no support in any of the Red Hat 9 kernels for this, so you're out
> of luck. The best thing to do is use a PATA drive for now, and wait to use
> SATA until the next set of Red Hat OS releases.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aly Dharshi [mailto:aly.dharshi@uleth.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: SATA and RH 9 Woes
>
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I hope that you are well. We have recently purchased a Dell Optiplex GX
> 270 with a 120GB SATA disk. RH 9 seems to not recognize this drive and
> doesn't allow me to proceed with a successful installation of Linux.
>
> Any ideas on how to resolve this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aly.
>
>
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