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2.2.3eSATA
External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (eSATA) serves as an external interface for SATA technologies. For customers who want fast (up to 1.5Gbit/s), easy-
eSATA devices are not bootable when BIOS is set to RAID mode and are not supported as a part of Virtual Disks when in RAID mode for S100.
To operate eSATA devices in the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.8 environment, the BIOS mode must be manually switched from default (AHCI mode) to ATA mode.
Table 3. eSATA Modes
Mode | Bootable | Restrictions | |
ATA mode | Yes | No |
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AHCI mode | Yes | Yes | RHEL 4.8 is not supported. |
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RAID mode (S100 | No | No | Linux and Virtualization OS are not |
enabled) |
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