there's one free SATA port. In BIOS, it is set to 'none' while the other is set to the primary disk (sda). <br>It is a bit confusing that they didn't show up with SATA designation, but simply as 'first channel' of SOMETHING. The two IDE are listed as 2nd, 3rd channel w/o EIDE designation either.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Greg Freemyer <<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do you have any empty SATA ports that you could disable?<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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2008/6/26 Jerry Yu <<a href="mailto:jjj863@gmail.com">jjj863@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Any pointer to troubleshoot these peculiar delays? Everything seems normal<br>
> once I get to the boot menu.<br>
><br>
> The delays are rather consistent as below. One thing I suspect is the<br>
> potentially wrong cable grade/type for the new EIDE disk.<br>
><br>
> ~1m for disks probe by BIOS<br>
> ~1m before transitions from the POST screen to a blank screen<br>
> ~1m before before 'GRUB loading stage1.5' appears on the blank screen<br>
> ~1m before 'GRUB loading' appears<br>
> ~1m before showing GRUB boot menu<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jerry Yu <<a href="mailto:jjj863@gmail.com">jjj863@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> u r correct, Geoffrey. a disk is just a disk. The box booted up to Linux<br>
>> just fine, with the EIDE disk replaced in-place.<br>
>><br>
>> It was peculiar that the grub loading is rather slow. 15s before it says<br>
>> 'GRUB loading stage 1.5', then another 15s bfore it says 'loading GRUB'.<br>
>> Once I got to the GRUB boot menu, everything seems to normal speed.<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Jerry Yu wrote:<br>
>>> > I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a<br>
>>> > bigger<br>
>>> > EIDE disk (120G). The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.<br>
>>> > gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew<br>
>>> > all<br>
>>> > five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to<br>
>>> > replace<br>
>>> > the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk (sda)<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow, when parted did<br>
>>> > all<br>
>>> > its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I don't think gparted has anything to do with that. Once you put the<br>
>>> drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no<br>
>>> longer show up as scsi.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply boot<br>
>>> afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate<br>
>>> drive.<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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