On 08/11/2018 12:22 PM, john doe wrote:
On 8/11/2018 5:19 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform.
I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a
question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB.
I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has not been
a friend to me. What I found via that route was that the 6 SATA
ports are the same. Should the boot drive be plugged into SATA8G_1?
I'm assuming that you have looked at the manuals Asus MB are well
documented)! :)
Going through the URL (1) without reading the "docs" the SATA internal
ports are apparently "all the same" but you might want to be careful
if you plan to use raid.
1) https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/specifications/
I appreciate the responses. I have looked a the MB Manual and the BIOS
in both the easy mode and the advanced mode. (incidentally, the BIOS is
current)
I have three dives on the platform:
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVDRAM GH24NSB0
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: LN00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST2000DM006-2DM1
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: CC26
serial: Z560Q2JW
size: 1863GiB (2TB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512
sectorsize=4096 signature=0bc7db76
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD5000AAKS-0
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 3B01
serial: WD-WMASY0223768
size: 465GiB (500GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512
sectorsize=512 signature=0003d403
I installed the current Debian Version on the 2TB HD as it was new at
the time.
Unfortunately, the boot sequence on the EZ Mode screen is only shows the
WD 500GB drive and the cdrom drive. I can only see the 2TB drive, upon
which I installed grub, by hitting F8 and selecting the 1TB drive for
booting. Now the last time I installed a HD on the system I can't say
as I paid any attention as to which connector each drive was plugged
into. Hence, the question that started this thread.
As I am strictly a user of computers I am very hesitant to mess around
with the hardware and the BIOS.
let me finish his email by saying that I am most appreciative of the
patience and consideration of most of the users of this list!
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