[ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?

[Jonathan Glass]

I wonder if the onboard IDE ports are disabled in BIOS?  Stranger things have
happened.

Just a thought.

Jonathan

Quoting Chris Coleman <cdcoleman at bellsouth.net>:

> Dow,
> 
> I'm ordering a Dell 370 with a 40g IDE and two 250G SATA disks with RH WS 3
> installed. So I'm assuming it should work.
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Dow_Hurst
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> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?
> 
> That doesn't work since there is no module to mount the drive.  I have to
> provide that.  I just wondered if mixing SATA and IDE was not going to work.
> Dell wouldn't sell a mixed machine so when it didn't have the module needed
> then I wondered.  Just checking before I go to the trouble.
> Dow
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu>
> Sent: Sep 23, 2004 4:20 PM
> To: Dow_Hurst <Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com>, 
> 	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?
> 
> Quoting Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com>:
> 
> > Is there any reason I can't use an IDE drive in a machine with a SATA
> drive
> > at the same time?  Dell 360n w/RHEL3 Wkstn has a SATA root drive and I
> want
> > to add an IDE drive.  There aren't modules available to mount the drive. 
> > Only the SATA scsi module is available.  How would I go about getting this
> > working?  Recompile the kernel and modules to support both SATA and IDE? 
> > Haven't done this in a long time so am going to have to review.  Thanks,
> > Dow
> > 
> 
> Just plug in the IDE drive, and the kernel will see it?  That's what I have 
> running on my Dell Precision 340.
> 
> Thanks
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