New SATA Hard Drive

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Sep 20 21:50:50 UTC 2007


On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:48:45 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>     Today I installed the SATA hard drive I ordered and on the 
> motherboard I found a SATA power plug and I plugged this drive into the 
> SATA1 plug. I looked at the BIOS and it calls it an IDE drive but way 
> out in position. I saw no way to tell BIOS it is really a SATA drive. I 
> guess this is normal :-)

There is a lot of deliberate back compatibility there. This is fine




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