SATA Boot

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:33 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>
>
> > I'm not sure I understand your questions.
> >
>
> Sorry! I had just taken my flu medication when I wrote that, so I was
> really woozy. (You Americans have something a lot more powerful--Nyquil,
> I believe it's called. Put me out like a light the one time I used it)

yes, nyquil is great for sleeping off a cold.

>
> I'm adding another server in Hong Kong, and because my budget is really
> tight this time round, I'm thinking of using SATA disks instead of SCSI.
> So I was wondering if there were any issues with using SATA instead of
> ATA or SCSI.

Depends more on the SATA controler & kernel version than anything.  I've
not had any problems with SATA drives lately.  Although SCSI still will
out-perform SATA.

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