[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Stupid hardware question

[Dennis Myhand]

Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 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.
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Great.  Thanks