On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:54:35 +1000 david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 11:44 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > > PATA is basically the same as what you might have known as ATA or > > IDE > > - with the wide 40 pin ribbon cable and header connector. (Yes you > > can get round IDE cables but that is mainly aesthetics and airflow > > - the connector is the same. > > > > SATA is the new-fangled type of connector with a skinny flat cable > > with only a dozen or so pins. (Google will give you pics and specs). > > > > If your board is 4 years old, it almost certainly will be IDE (or > > PATA as you say) > > > > I have a PATA only board to which I added a SATA controller card and > now run two PATA and two SATA drives. Works for me :) > > I'm not sure if there could be a BIOS issue, but I didn't have one.
Thanks David. I don't really have a storage problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 37G 3.0G 32G 9% / tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 52K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 145G 9.5G 130G 7% /home But I like the second disk for automatic backups. More than two would be overkill :-). Thanks > > > > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Alan L Tyree > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need some advice. I'm running Debian Etch on a four year old > > > box. I has (had) two disk drives, one of which dropped dead. > > > > > > Looking for new ones, I see P/ATA and S/ATA. Can I use either one > > > of these, or do they require special motherboard support? How do > > > I tell if my system supports either one? > > > > > > Thanks for help, > > > Alan > > > > > > -- > > > Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan > > > Tel: 04 2748 6206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 > > > FWD: 615662 > > > -- > > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > > > http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: > > > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, Martin > > > > Martin Visser > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
