F23 on PATA or SATA ext. disk?

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Chris Murphy composed on 2015-08-06 13:19 (UTC-0600):
>
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>>> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 13:55 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> Looking at all the thread responses, I don't understand any of them. OP is
> using a laptop right? While his external *might* be on eSATA, it's more
> likely on Firewire, yet almost certainly on USB, especially if not a Mac, and
> just as close to certainly *not* on PATA. Whether on Firewire or USB, neither
> kernel nor drivers will know whether the outside end is on PATA or SATA,
> right?

Right.

> IOW, answer to OP is no difference whatsover, except possibly for a
> slight speed difference if USB3 rather than USB2 or Firewire.

Yeah. And I don't even know if Fedora supports those interfaces for
booting. Obviously USB is for install media, because it has to, but
for /boot or root fs? I don't think so. There's no test for it anyway.

-- 
Chris Murphy