From 64256651eacdfc0562d18c82e3884774dee5c34c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GNU Hurd wiki engine Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:56:48 +0000 Subject: web commit by MichaelBanck --- hurd/running/debian/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/running/debian/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fdb2dcdd --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[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]]."]]"""]] + +Sata Disk Drives + +GNU Mach does not support SATA disk drives (/dev/sda etc. in GNU/Linux) natively, so using device:sd0s1 will not work, 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. -- cgit v1.2.3