[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Stupid hardware question

[Stuart Johnston]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> I am thinking about getting some extra storage and going big in the 
> process.  I am running ATA100 IDE drives on both of my systems, and they 
> are both capable of using SATA drives.  Can I add an SATA drive to a 
> system when the OS is on an ATA100 hard drive?  Will this cause problems 
> or will it work seamlessly?  Thanks, Dennis

As long as the OS supports SATA, it will work fine.  Under Linux, the 
IDE drives will be named like /dev/hda1 but the SATA drives will be 
/dev/sda1.