Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 4, 2005, at 10:15 PM, jason henson wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-05 Thread jason henson
Chuck Robey wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chuck Robey wrote: I don't know why it's true... I can state that I've had 3 of them so far, and had troubles with 2, and google is chock full of reports. Further, the info about them being the same as their IDE brethren isn't true, at least, the access rate specifications are higher for SATA d

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed w

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard > drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is > there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed > with SATA

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 4, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD a

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If > > FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. > > > > I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE > > har

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Andrew L. Gould wrote: My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is

mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I sho