Re: SCO 5.0.5 or higher and Serial ATA drives

From: Steve Gardiner (steveg_at_drapers.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:58:55 -0700

Some further digging shows that the Intel SATA support was incorporated into
5.0.7 Update Pack 2. I didn't find it earlier because I was looking through
the Update Pack 3 notes. The downside is you need to buy a SCO Update
license to apply the update pack. It may be easier just to download the iir
driver from Intel, if that's all you need.

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/osr507up/osr507up2.htm#rn507up_feats_sata

Serial ATA support
Serial ATA is supported by the iir driver only for the Intel RAID Controller
(PCI) card Model SRCS14L. As a rule, motherboards with built-in Serial ATA
controllers are not supported. However, certain motherboards with Intel
chipsets (such as the i865p and i875p) include support for a legacy mode
that presents Serial ATA drives as parallel ATA (IDE) drives to the
operating system. (Such motherboards include a ``Legacy'' or ``P-ATA
Secondary'' option in the BIOS.)

"David Smith" <desmithii@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:iCAUc.64$eh.35@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Anyone been able to get SCO OpenServer to load on a Serial ATA drive as
the
> primary (only) drive?
> Its a new IBM Xseries 204 server, but only has one 70Gig SATA drive in
it..
> would rather run SCO since this will be the 3rd server for this customer,
> but can find no mention of SATA support on sco's knowledge base or at IBM
or
> Adaptech (SATA controler is intergrated on the motherboard.) The adapter
> bios does support RAID 0 and Raid 1, but with a min of 2 physical drives
and
> customer is on a limited budget. Looking for any suggestions, a boot
string
> to try.. at this point I'll take anything you throw my way. lol.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
>
>

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