Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote:
(...)
>> Do I need to make changes in the BIOS to recognize SATA drives?
>
> Obviously, I needed to answer my own question. Yes! I did need to
> activate SATA in the BIOS.
(...)
It's not very common for a motherboard with sata ports to have them
disabled :-?
> As soon as I did so 'ls /dev/disk/by-id' clearly showed the drive as
> being /dev/sda. I then did 'fdisk /dev/sda' which showed that it does
> not come pre-partitioned. This is, of course, not a problem, since I
> would have wiped out the FAT, or NTFS partition and replaced it with
> ext-3 partitions, anyway.
No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level
formatted from factory :-)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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