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, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.25.13.36...@gmail.com
