Does Fedora Core 4 work with SATA hard drive?

[manfredcml]

I'm trying to install a linux distribution on a 2nd SATA hard drive on my Dell
Dimension 8400. It looks like Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 3 do not recognize the
SATA drive. For Redhat 9 and Fedora 3, others have said it is necessary to change
BIOS settings to support ATA, install the linux distribution, update kernel to 2.6.11,
and then switch BIOS back to AHCI. But since Fedora Core 4 is supposed to have kernel
2.6.11, all this should not be necessary? Installing Fedora Core 4 should work without
changing BIOS settings? Has anybody tried this?

Thanks.

[komi]

Hi!

I also would like to know, if FC4 installs on SATA Drives without problems.

Anybody has experience?

regards komi

[Dragoran]

I have fc4 x86_64 installed on a sata drive without any problems.
chipset is nvidia nforce 3

[mik93]

I've one SATA disk and had absolutely no problems installing FC3 on it. It runs beautifully.
Proc - Sempron 2600, Kernel - 2.6. MoBo is Asus K8V-X, Bootmanager - Grub.

I just installed the disk, put in the cd and followed the instructions.

[carl h]

I have installed FC4 x86-64 onto a SATA drive and Abit NF8 mobo, with no problems at all.

[komi]

thank you!

regards komi

[lyricalstress]

FC3 and Redhat 9 didn't include support for all SATA chipsets (eg NVIDIA NForce 3 250)

FC4 supports all the chipsets and installs like a charm. I really like FC4 (except for the gcc-4.0 problem with MPlayer). ;)

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Gigabyte K8NS Pro socket 754 mb with NVIDIA NForce 3 250 chipset
1 GB PC2-3200 DDR2 SDRAM
120 GB 7200 Maxtor SATA HD
256 MB EVGA Nvidia 6200 AGP
Belkin Wireless G FSD7000 V3 card with RaLink RT2500 chipset and native Linux drivers