OT: ATA and SATA hdd's [solved]

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Wed Feb 15 20:44:38 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:03 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> 
> 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.
I've got it working now, I had to manually add /media/sda1 and edit
fstab. Oh and I had to play with my bios to get it working.

duncan





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