Any tips for getting Ubuntu 6.10 to recognize a couple of SATA drives I
will be putting in a system? I have a video editing workstation I am
putting together. Right now it has 3 IDE drives in it for WindowsXP,
Ubuntu 6.10 linux, and a FAT32 data drive. But I just ordered two SATA
drives that I will use for read/write of video data files I will be
editing. The SATA drives are 3 Gigabit/sec data transfer which will help
greatly, 400MB each, 7200rpm. I am worried that linux will have issues
recognizing SATA--anybody know how good/bad linux is with SATA? Anything I
could do in advance to help this go smoothly? I might even want to set up
the two SATA drives as a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array, undecided on that matter
(any thoughts on that also appreciated).

Realtime playback of video during editing requires massive cpu, gcpu, and
data throughput to drives, hence the setup. I also ordered a second nvidia
GeForce 7900GT to add to my one to create a SLI setup for dual graphics
cards to help with the rendering--I hope I can get linux to play nice with
the SLI setup.