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Date:	Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:58:21 PST8
From:	Gary Wong <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Getting the SATA Drive To Work

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Colin Campbell wrote:
> J R FOX wrote:
>> I don't know anyone who is using SATA, and there may
>> be few if any SATA users in the group ? (Tony was
>> talking about using them, but I don't know what he is
>> actually using right now, in terms of HDD.) This may
>> be a question to take to Daniella or the DFSEE forum
>> on Yahoo.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well, my Dell has SATA drives. It came with one, and I added a
> second, rather than try to shrink the Windows XP partition. I have my
> eCS volume, a swap volume, and an HPFS data volume, plus a FAT32 data
> volume on the second drive.
>
> I had no problems getting things to work. I just started out with
> Dani's driver DANIS506 driver. (I may have had to get a latest
> version, but I cannot recall for certain, since that is now 15 months
> in the past.)
>
> The fact I had no trouble kept me from replying sooner; I figured "I
> can't help" wouldn't be much help. But, at least, you should know
> that there are eCS systems using SATA among the SCOUG population.
> Colin
>
Same here, I was able to install eCS 1.2 (regular and media refresh) on
a WD 80GB SATA drive without any problem (except for the fact that my
CD-ROM and CD burners had to be re-cabled/jumpered/etc in terms of
master/slave, since I had no ATA hard drives).

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