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Am Interested to know whether FC9 can be installed on internal sata SSD or it supports pata drives only?
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I've got some really, really old IDE hard drives, like a Conner CP3024 drive which is a whopping 21 megabyte in size. I've been trying to rescue it, but there seems to be some strangeness with the ...
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For fun, I'd like to "revive" a vintage computer, but this requires to hardware reformat a PATA disk. I found on the net the formatting utility from the vendor but it works only under Windows and I ...
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When issuing the ATA secure erase command via hdparm against multiple SATA (non-SSD) drives it occurs in parallel. However when the same command is issued against PATA drives, it occurs ...
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Though I've got quite a good basic understanding of sysfs meanwhile, there are still things I cannot solve on my own. For a starter, I'd like to figure out via sysfs (later by scripting of course) ...
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I don't have any IDE drives and my only SATA hard drive is running in AHCI mode, but my initrd image loads the pata_atiixp module. Is it safe to disable this module? And what about the ata_generic one?...
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I have an ATA hard disk in my laptop, running Fedora 11, kernel 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586. I am looking to upgrade the disk in here (would love to get an SSD) but I forgot if it's a serial ATA or ...
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Assume that we have two disks, one master SATA and one master ATA. How will they show up in /dev?
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