[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Stupid hardware question

[Wayne Walker]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:29:03AM -0600, Burton Strauss wrote:
> Newer Linuxes (udev based, such as Ubuntu) use /dev/sdx for all drives.

And most of them use a volume label or a uniq drive id to define the
device instead of /dev/sda2.  so adding a device to well written distros
won't break them.

> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> 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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