[ale] a disk is just a disk?

[Jerry Yu]

there's one free SATA port. In BIOS, it is set to 'none' while the other is
set to the primary disk (sda).
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.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Do you have any empty SATA ports that you could disable?
>
> Greg
>
> 2008/6/26 Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:
> > Any pointer to troubleshoot these peculiar delays? Everything seems
> normal
> > once I get to the boot menu.
> >
> > The delays are rather consistent as below. One thing I suspect is the
> > potentially wrong cable grade/type for the new EIDE disk.
> >
> > ~1m for disks probe by BIOS
> > ~1m before transitions from the POST screen to a blank screen
> > ~1m before before  'GRUB loading stage1.5' appears on the blank screen
> > ~1m before 'GRUB loading' appears
> > ~1m before showing GRUB boot menu
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  u r correct, Geoffrey. a disk is just a disk. The box booted up to
> Linux
> >> just fine, with the EIDE disk replaced in-place.
> >>
> >> It was peculiar that the grub loading is rather slow. 15s before it says
> >> 'GRUB loading stage 1.5', then another 15s bfore it  says 'loading
> GRUB'.
> >> Once I got to  the GRUB boot menu, everything seems to normal speed.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Jerry Yu wrote:
> >>> > I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a
> >>> > bigger
> >>> > EIDE disk (120G).  The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.
> >>> > gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew
> >>> > all
> >>> > five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).
> >>> >
> >>> > Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to
> >>> > replace
> >>> > the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR  & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk
> (sda)
> >>> >
> >>> > would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow,  when parted
> did
> >>> > all
> >>> > its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?
> >>>
> >>> I don't think gparted has anything to do with that.  Once you put the
> >>> drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no
> >>> longer show up as scsi.
> >>>
> >>> I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply
> boot
> >>> afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate
> >>> drive.
> >>>
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