[Gllug] It doesn't fit - cock-up on the motherboard format vector

[John Winters]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 14:22 +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> John Winters wrote:
[snip]
> > I have a number of IDE HDDs sitting about which I could use, but is it
> > worth going to Serial-ATA since the board can handle four of these?  Are
> > they significantly faster?  Again, quiet is good.
> 
> definitely faster than PATA if you use a shiny new kernel.  Be prepared
> for some 'fun' if you want to boot off them though.

So perhaps a 20G IDE drive just to boot from, then SATA for everything
else?

John

(20G just to boot from!  That's 500 times the size of my first HDD and I
dismiss it as a boot device!)


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