[LUNI] Installing Ubuntu on SATA

[Ramin K]

Jay Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking about buying a Dell that has SATA drives.  Would I be
> able to install Ubuntu on that drive without a problem?  I.e. are
> there proper drivers out there now, so that the SATA drive can be my
> primary drive?
> 
> Could I use 2 SATA drives for raid?   Would you expect any issues?
> 
> Thanks
> Jay

Any reasonably modern 2.6 kernel will work with the Dell SATA cards and 
even the Dell SATA hardware raid cards. I've never had an issue running 
Gentoo on either.

Ramin