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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2013-03-17 13:29:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2013-03-17 13:29:39 +0100 |
| commit | b43ea6ca9b24067ee5d4775383a09c46233119df (patch) | |
| tree | ca8834a185270e2896cf213daf8184e3eeb3450b /faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn | |
| parent | f4e44fd710c97c83c0626ce0334a2d4aedb729a2 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2edaa610 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/support/sata_disk_drives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Are SATA disk drives supported?"]] + +GNU Mach does not support SATA disk drives (`/dev/sda` etc. in GNU/Linux) +natively, so using `device:sd0s1` will not work, as sd* devices are for SCSI +drives only. +The only way to get those drives to work is to put them into compatibility mode +in the BIOS, if such an option exists. GNU Mach will then recognize them as hda etc. |