F23 on PATA or SATA ext. disk?

[Felix Miata]

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