[ILUG] Hardware queries

[Nick Murtagh]

kevin wrote:
> On a slightly different tack. After googling around it seems the Silicon Image 
> 3112 SATA chip is supported under linux and the Dabs generic SATA controller 
> is 3112 based so I might give a SATA drive a whirl. Anybody any major reasons 
> not to switch to SATA?

Jeff Garzik regards the driver status as beta. See

   http://lwn.net/Articles/92954/

for his July 8 status update.