Simply Mepis & SATA?
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Can I load Simply Mepis on a SATA machine??? I am about to build a new 3.6GHz prescott box and I am debating whether to purchase a SATA HD. I searched this forum but most of the posts on SATA seem to be about a year old.
It's working for me
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I've got two SATA drives and the Intel ICH5 Serial ATA controller, and SimplyMEPIS is running just ducky on my box. 
The drives show up at /dev/sda/ and /dev/sdb/
Fine for me..
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I have the latest SimplyMEPIS working fine OOTB (2.6.7 kernel) on an onboard Promise 20376 controller- one of the first distros i've used that has managed this!
SATA
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Scrumhalf-
On my Asus M2NVP-VM, I have 3 SATA drives working (dual boot with XP on a 10k Raptor). Two data drives Seagate 320 GIg also working fine.
No problems with the SATA drives so far.Transfer from one data drive to another about 300 Mb/s for many gig directories.
Good luck with your build.
-Jay
Abandon the creeping meatball !
Old Post
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entropyfoe, thank you for the information, but please note this post is over 2 years old.
Jon
SimplyMEPIS Value CD: $17.95
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I've heard that there are peo
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I've heard that there are people that use SATA. And also the official version is that yes, SATA should work: http://faq.mepis.net/index.php?action=artikel&cat=324889&id=39&artlang=en
I also saw that some people had problems (it might have been some other issues, multiple disks, wrong configuration)