On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:01 +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > Hi, > First of all, thanks to Oded Arbel. > A couple of new questions: > 1-On the two quotations I received today, they propose SATA hard > drives. Now, I know that less than two years ago, installing > Linux, when the first drive (in this case the only drive ) was > SATA, was a complicated affair, because the instalers did not > contain drivers for those drives. What is the situation now ? > I am speaking about debian, kernel 2.6.8. And, what distinguishes > the SATA disks (in other words, is it worth the trouble) ?
Most non normal chipset (running in non-RAID configuration) should work out of the box. > 2-As I am pretty happy with my present graphic card - ATI > Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a), I thought that, maybe > I shall transfer it to the new computer. But, apparently, the > gigabyte motherboard I chose supports "1,5V display cards only". > Anyone knows what that means? 1.5 usually means AGP4 or above cards. Your current card won't work in this slot. You'll need a new display card. Either get a cheap ATI (and use the open source drivers) such as Radeon 7xxx or get an nVidia GF5xxx/6xxx card and use the closed source drivers (downloadable from nvidia.com) > 3-I run smartctl on my hard disks. On the first one it failed 9 > times ( I understand nothing of the accompanying text), but on > the second it found nothing wrong, not even that the boot sector > is gone (that's why I inherited it, in the first place !). Is it > kosher that this defect was not detected ? Can you post the complete command line and output? Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
