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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+[[!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.