I installed 2 80GB SATA drives on my workstation. Debian 3.0 installed
no problem. Long story short - I installed SuSE 9.0, then Fedora Core 3
(Test1). They all worked with the SATA drive, but represented it
differently - weird.
SuSE saw the drives as "normal" ATA drives - /dev/hda and /dev/hdc.
Fedora Core 3 sees them as SCSI drives - /dev/sda and /dev/sdc. Ok,
I'll go with that. Unfortunately, all the ATA utilities I am used to
using don't work right. I can work with that, too.
Then came the time I started really using the machine - lots of disk IO.
Lots of hard disk errors. Lots of kernel lockups (the kernel doesn't
like it when the filesystem / swap suddenly disappears). Turns out one
part of the drive circuit board gets really hot under extended IO. I
had to go buy hard drive coolers and temperature monitors for the
drives. Keep in mind my case has 4 fans in front of the drives already.
Personally, I think SATA sux.
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760
Joe and Colleen Huber wrote:
> I feel like an idiot asking this... throw caution to the wind... what's the
> difference between SATA and UATA 133?
>
> Long story short - I bought a HP (arrived a few hours ago), I want to put
> some flavor of Linux on it, was concerned about voiding the warranty if I do
> that... so I went with a 40G drive (smallest available) and figured I would
> pull it out, stick it on the shelf and replace it with something else
> (COSTCO is selling Maxtor 200G Ultra ATA 133s for 135.00). If I have any
> hardware issues and need to avail myself of the warranty I'll just swap the
> original drive back in. The HP shipped with a SATA.
>
> SATA and UATA "interchangable?"
> Was a little overwhelmed looking at the install info on their site this
> morning but I'm thinking Debian (I suppose with the orignal drive on the
> shelf I can't mess to much up while learning...)
>
> joe
>
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