F23 on PATA or SATA ext. disk?

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Thu Aug 6 19:19:29 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 13:55 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> for testing purposes I use a fast Laptop (with Win 8.1) and Fedora on
>> an external disk.
>> For F23 testing is it preferable to have the system on an PATA
>> external disk? or SATA ext. disk? Or should this be no matter of
>> significance?
>
> I wouldn't say there's a huge difference.


Have there been successes with SATA with failures with PATA? What was
the nature? They're both handled by libata and seem sufficiently
abstracted that I'd be surprised if the installer is aware of the
difference.

-- 
Chris Murphy


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