Using SATA disks...

[gnufied]

I was using Suse 10.0 with my Acer Travelmate 4150NLCi, my harddisk showed up as "/dev/sda" and everything was ok. ( Except that i hated the way Suse has mingled KDE and GNOME....so i had kdeinit,gconfd running at the same time, wasting much of the system resources. Except for hardware support, i didn't really liked Suse)

So i switched to Gentoo. I installed using Universal CD.... and some initial packages i installed using GRPs. DMA was not working on the hard disk and my hard disk showed up as "/dev/hdc". I downloaded the latest kernel sources from kernel.org ( no i am not running genkernel ), and modifying few files ( piix.c ) solved the DMA problem. Yet..i have some issues.

I don't have write access to my DVD combo

Is it ok..to have a SATA hard disk as /dev/hdc - i mean it should be /dev/sda right?

3d acceleration is not working, and i had to use VESA

Touchpad mouse is not working..though i have compiled most of the mouse drivers as modules.

How do i get 3D acceleration work? i have even tried installing latest drivers from dri snapshot...but still X won't see my video card!!

[slam_head]

I've been running a server with a SATA drive as /dev/hda for about 10 months and I haven't had any problems. The system is a file server and get a fairly heavy load.