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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 10:36:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200 |
| commit | 38cfa89677eabc85fc23e31e24cee85fb1ecfa54 (patch) | |
| tree | 45822eb14eb11bdf7e96f0b8f3c5c7f0b9f81b88 /faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn | |
| parent | d8ba0864d2cc74397960060b79a8c9154bb16d34 (diff) | |
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Rework FAQ machinery to be based on tags instead of filenames.
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diff --git a/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn b/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..70560f12 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/sata_disk_drives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag faq/support]] + +[[!meta title="Are SATA disk drives supported?"]] + +GNU Mach does not support SATA disk drives (`/dev/sda` etc. in GNU/Linux) +natively, so using `device:sd0s1` will not work, as sd* devices are for SCSI +drives only. +The only way to get those drives to work is to put them into compatibility mode +in the BIOS, if such an option exists. GNU Mach will then recognize them as hda etc. |