[ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 24 09:19:52 EDT 2004


Thanks for that too.  I'll check.
Dow


Jonathan Glass wrote:

>I wonder if the onboard IDE ports are disabled in BIOS?  Stranger things have
>happened.
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>Just a thought.
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>Jonathan
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>Quoting Chris Coleman <cdcoleman at bellsouth.net>:
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>>Dow,
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>>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.
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>>Chris
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>Dow_Hurst
>>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:17 PM
>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>Subject: Re: [ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?
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>>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
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>>-----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?
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>>Quoting Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com>:
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>>>Is there any reason I can't use an IDE drive in a machine with a SATA
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>>drive
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>>>at the same time?  Dell 360n w/RHEL3 Wkstn has a SATA root drive and I
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>>want
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>>>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
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>>Just plug in the IDE drive, and the kernel will see it?  That's what I have 
>>running on my Dell Precision 340.
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>>Thanks
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