Is SATA hard drive supported by Fedora?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Aug 5 15:54:07 UTC 2005
Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thu August 4 2005 9:56 pm, Hongyu Sun wrote:
>
>>Dear All:
>>
>>My computer is Dell OptiPlex GX280
>>
>>>From the specification on
>>
>>http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/optix_gx280?c=
>>us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb
>>
>>the hard drive is
>>
>>Serial ATA 40, 80, 160 and 250GB 7200 RPM hard drives with S.M.A.R.T. II
>>
>>To install Linux, I want to add a hard drive.
>>
>>The Dell website recommended product is
>>
>> MAXTOR
>> 100 GB 7200 RPM OneTouch II USB External Hard Drive
>> $127.46
>>
>>It is surprising that an external hard drive is recommended. But what
>>is more confusing is this website,
>>
>
> If my memory serves me, that's a SFF machine (small form factor), which, if
> true, may not have an available slot for another internal hard drive.
> Can't help you with SATA, but there have been many posts on this forum in the
> past period from people dealing with this issue. You can go here to get a
> decent search of fedora-list:
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>
I have a GX260 with the same case and it has only one drive bay
inside. I know as I need more space and I have to put the extra drive
on the USB buss. Waiting for new drive and USB drive case.
I have SATA drives at home on my ASUS motherboard. They didn't work
with a fresh FC1 install but once I updated the kernel module, no
problems. About to add more drives as I need space as we all do.
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