[ubuntu-za] Partition Problems - was SATA (was Re: Switching to Linux (was Ubuntu Tea shirts))

[Bill Cairns]

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>>> On 28 May 2007 at 09:46 AM, in message <465A88EB.1090307 at ubuntu.com>, Morgan

Collett <morgan at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hilton Gibson wrote:

>> There is a problem with modern SATA drives being reliably detected. The web 

>> site that deals with this is: http://linux-ata.org. You will notice from the 

>> web site that SATA is an ongoing issue. This is normal in the open source 

>> world where "drivers" for hardware are first written for Microsoft and then 

>> normally reverse engineered for Linux.

> 

> While there have been problems with SATA at times, it is not true to say

> "there is a problem with modern SATA drives" in general. The last time I

> heard a complaint about SATA was 18 months ago.

> 

> In fact, as of 7.04, Ubuntu uses the same driver subsystem for SATA and

> PATA (IDE).

> 

> My laptop and desktop both use SATA - the desktop SATA II. No problems

> whatsoever.

> 

> The Dell models now available with Ubuntu preloaded have SATA drives:

> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs 

> 

>> Your installs should work great on IDE drives. Check out this link for 

>> programs to resize windows partitions safely;

>> http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ResizeWindowsPartition 

> 

> These are not necessary. The Ubuntu installer resizes NTFS safely.

> 

> Regards

> Morgan