>> Your subject says "SATA" but the message doesn't say S or P. So what is
it?
Bob Wrote "Just bought me a new 250G sata hard drive."
Thus I believe it is a S-ATA, since he mentions it twice and refers to his
two P-ATA drives as "IDE".
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:35 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SATA
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Bob Stia wrote:
> Just bought me a new 250G sata hard drive. Already running two older
> IDE drives.
>
> Going to use it for backups, put SUSE 10.2 on it and some data storage.
If you're just going to use it for backups, why put an OS on it?
> Have a question about the drive though. Has a jumper on it. Got no
> documentation, warranty, etc about the drive (Seagate) from NewEgg.
>
> I googled a bunch about this jumper and only served to confuse me. ie:
> only remove/change for "enterprise", "changing jumper increase
> throughput" etc.
>
> So what say the Sluggers. Educate the old guy.
Your subject says "SATA" but the message doesn't say S or P. So what is it?
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