>> Thing is with SATA is they are hot swappable.
Not all drives are. Many are not, and it requires support of the interface,
OS and drives. Generally, a special host interface is required to make this
work well. If you meant "it's nice that this was included in the spec",
then I fully agree with you.
>> Maybe some day all programming of OS'es will be the same when and if we
>> ever figure out how to have just one programming
>> language for all computers.
I believe you are describing that "C" language. Or Java. Or Python.
Or.....
If you mean "a common file system", we do have FAT32 - so limited that even
it's inventor is abandoning it. Still, it's all we have right not that is
common between Linux and Windows. Any of you Mac guys know if OS-X can read
FAT32?
>> Installing more drives just gives you more drive letters.....
Something is wrong with your Linux distro if you see any drive letters
<grin>. There are many here that can help you with the infectious code that
would be the cause.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of James
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:51 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SATA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stia" <rnr@sanctum.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: [SLUG] SATA
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Bob S.
Well this explains a lot on SATA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Thing is with SATA is they are hot swappable. I like the idea that i can
swap a drive into any computer and instantly have use of all the data and
self contained programs on that drive. But of course this does not work
between Windows and Linux. it. Maybe some day all programming of OS'es will
be the same when and if we ever figure out how to have just one programming
language for all computers.
Installing more drives just gives you more drive letters with additional
space Kinda like USB.
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