Hard drive spec change

Thu Mar 11 21:54:17 UTC 2010

On 2010/03/11 12:10 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> You know you can buy a PCI SATA controller card for about $10 in any PC
> junk store, right?

PC BIOS treat those as SCSI cards, which do not play nice with boot device
order control by the PC BIOS, if not OS device names. Even when neither is a
problem, it's no given that a PCI slot is available, or the junk store has
enough cards for all machines with dead HDs on the LAN.
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