Quote Originally Posted by saikee View Post
Not too sure of the reason why it has to be an older kernel between 2.6.29 to 2.4.31. Modern kernels are a lot better in detecting hardware than the older ones.

SCSI disks are same as Sata disk to Linux and long been given sda, sdb, sdc etc the device names when IDE disks were called hda to hde. Nowadays all hard disks and flash drives are called by the same device names sda, sdb, sdc etc and the detection order as per the setting in the motherboard.

If you use a 2.4.xx kernel then your SCSI will be sda and your IDE disk will be hda. Never run a SCSI disk after I got into Linux but I did had a couple donkeys years running MS Windows.

Xp will of course makes no distinction between hard disk type.

Thus I don't think you need both with the hard disk types in both systems and just use whatever the system calls them.
I had seen on another forum that Linux prefers SCSI, and SATA support is sketchy (especially before kernel 2.6.30). From what I understand, Linux can be fooled into thinking that SATA HDD is SCSI, but this is just a workaround, and not a good solution. If so, it would seem that simply going SCSI would be better. Since XP Pro is not picky about SATA or SCSI, my only concern is which is better for Linux kernel 2.6.29 & prior. As I'm doing custom-build, I can go either way. Not sure what you mean by IDE...are IDE connectors required for SCSI? Sorry, I'm not too familiar with SCSI!