sata adapter card

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

i have a question about sata adapter cards.

recently, i purchased a cheap "adapter" card new from ebay.com (2 dollars)

The card is an IDE to SATE adapter card for hard drives. In the advert it did not list
that it was compatable with Linux.

I booted my PC to windows and with it's "motherboard" CD disc, i installed the familiar
raid sata driver the for the VIA bord chipset from within windows.

I powered off the computer and then removed the IDE cable on the hard drive and
plugged the new adpater board into the rear of the IDE hard drive and then the SATA
cable from it into the SATA on the motherboard.

I rebooted the PC and windows started up and al is well. The machine is much faster
which was the intention of the adapter card purchase.

Since then i have tried Linux Lice CD's like PUppy and everything seams fine.

What i am trying to understand is "because" the motherboard sata driver was installed
from within windows, does this mean that Linux distros that are installed to that Hard drive
may NOT find a sata driver to use?

Say i repartition my hard drive and create  a 1 gig ex2 partition for Tinycore linux.

Will TCL be able to deal with this "sata adapater card" on the rear of the ide HDD?.  (since the adapter card did not mention that it was compatable with Linux)

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-IDE-SATA-100-133-HDD-CD-DVD-Converter-Adapter-/140527326681?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b814d5d9

thanks,

Vince.

[gerald_clark]

The IDE->SATA adapter on the back of the IDE drive has nothing to do with
the motherbord SATA interface.  Neither Windows nor Linux know it is there.
They only talk to the motherboard SATA chips.

The SATA adapter cannot make the drive any faster.

[vinceASPECT]

Hello Gerald,

well i don't know...it just seems a faster computer now. I'd recommend it to
anybody.

As far as  the thread goes. I figure that if Live Linux CD's boot up fine
and my hard drive appears on the Linux desktop. Then Linux must be talking
to my hard drive through the sata adapter card. So that looks ok.

Thanks

Vince.