Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:21:24 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SATA II drives Message-ID: <5AC35E86D06C2FFE26A538DB@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <20070119.230644.5451.1711055@webmail56.nyc.untd.com> References: <20070119.230644.5451.1711055@webmail56.nyc.untd.com>
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--==========27BCBE63C4124B7221C8========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On January 20, 2007 7:06:27 AM +0000 rcugini@netzero.net wrote: > I have a Promise Tx4 SATA II card with a 1/4 terabyte SATA II Western > digital drive. This drive has some free space, a windows partition and > a Mepis 6.0 Linux partition. > > Will BSD work with a SATA II drive? Will it "see" the other operating > systems? > uname -a FreeBSD utd59514.utdallas.edu 6.0-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Tue=20 Apr 18 08:56:09 UTC 2006=20 root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 ad4: 238418MB <Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR51HW0> at ata2-master SATA150 ad5: 238418MB <Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR51HW0> at ata2-slave SATA150 These are two 300GB drives. This machine has Windows XP SP2 installed as well, although I never use=20 it. After the original install, I've booted into Windows twice to update=20 the patches. (Probably should do that again some time.) I use FreeBSD's native boot manager. It "sees" Windows XP as "Other". Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========27BCBE63C4124B7221C8==========--
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