[ale] Mixing SATA and IDE?

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Thu Sep 23 16:13:46 EDT 2004


Quoting Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com>:

> Is there any reason I can't use an IDE drive in a machine with a SATA drive
> at the same time?  Dell 360n w/RHEL3 Wkstn has a SATA root drive and I want
> to add an IDE drive.  There aren't modules available to mount the drive. 
> Only the SATA scsi module is available.  How would I go about getting this
> working?  Recompile the kernel and modules to support both SATA and IDE? 
> Haven't done this in a long time so am going to have to review.  Thanks,
> Dow
> 

Just plug in the IDE drive, and the kernel will see it?  That's what I have 
running on my Dell Precision 340.

Thanks
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