[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Stupid hardware question

[Burton Strauss]

Newer Linuxes (udev based, such as Ubuntu) use /dev/sdx for all drives.

Connect the drives and use a live CD to boot.  Make sure that /dev/sda is
still the ATA drive and /dev/sdb etc are the SATA ones.  If not, you will
need to look for and change an advanced BIOS setting to have the ATA drive
first.

-----Burton

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Stuart Johnston
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 7:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Stupid hardware question

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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