OT: ATA and SATA hdd's

[Colin Brace]

On 2/8/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:

> I have a 160GB ATA drive (master) and want to buy a 300 GB drive. I have
> two SATA plugs on my motherboard, so I'm thinking the new drive should
> use SATA.

You'll be fine. Note that after you format the drive with fdisk, Linux
will give it a device name starting with "s", such as  /dev/sda,
rather than h, as in IDE drives. This can be a little confusing, as
the docs say "s" devices are SCSI. In turns out they are SCSI or SATA.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam