Please see the manual of the computer in question attached for an answer to the question, as I am not sure of what is the exact "ID" of the SATA controller.

--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount@googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu, SATA, installation!?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 8:59 PM
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:29:51 -0700
> (PDT)
> 0 <the_herd_of_the_horses@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Doesn't Ubuntu support* SATA?
> Yes.
> > Why only parallel ATA is mentioned as a possible hard
> disk?
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/device-names.html
> I don't know. SATA (and SCSI) devices are generally named
> as SCSI,
> though (/dev/sd*).
>
> > Which SATA controllers are supported?!
> I've not yet come across one that isn't, but the Ubuntu
> HCL[0] is
> incredibly sparse on this. What controller do you have?
>
> [0]
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsSerialATAControllers
>
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0 wrote:
> I've not installed Ubuntu yet, I want to know whether it supports the SATA controller of the PC mentioned. I hope the manual tells enough information about the SATA controller for you to answer.
>
> https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B8oLg_kLKV2eNGE1Njk5NjUtMjNlOC00NzQ0L WEwM2YtOTlkNThiOTBkNzZj&hl=en
>
> Actually, I'm not sure whether I'm going to install Ubuntu, and am afraid that I'll not cope with the installation, as this is my first installation of an OS.
>
> I would be extremely glad if I could get a relevant and helpful reply.
>
> --original message---
>
> On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:50 -0000, 0 <the_herd_of_the_horses at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please see the manual of the computer in question for an answer to the
>> question:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B8oLg_kLKV2eNGE1Njk5NjUtMjNlOC00NzQ0L WEwM2YtOTlkNThiOTBkNzZj&hl=en
>>
>> , as I am not sure of what is the exact "ID" of the SATA controller.
>>
> run 'lspci' without the quotes in a terminal and post the results
>

I have many Ubuntu versions on a 160 GB SATA drive, the
latest is 9.10, and they have no issue with SATA. And my
motherboard has a SATA controller.

73 Karl


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