Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:10:05 Camaleón wrote: > Sorry, Lisi but on a mailing list there are some rules you should try to > follow, and I don't want to sound rude but you insisted too much in > remarking something I was not talking about, dunno why. Camaleón - this is absurd. You do soun

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: >> >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole >>

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: > >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole > >> thread) before making such statements on what you find "qualified

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole >> thread) before making such statements on what you find "qualified" or >> not because something can look unqualified only t

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-27 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: > Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole thread) > before making such statements on what you find "qualified" or not because > something can look unqualified only to unqualified eyes, so please, I > understand that som

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:06:06 +0100, Lisi wrote: Gee... still with this? :-) > On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: >> Yes, you should have read the full thread > > I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. > And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: > Yes, you should have read the full thread I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don't you think that this all getting a bit OTT for what was, after all, not that seriou

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:47:45 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: >> It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were >> not talking about external hard disks at all. > > I _was_ replying solely to the statement. And you expanded with

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: > It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were > not talking about external hard disks at all. I _was_ replying solely to the statement. I did not read thro' the thread and make sure of the context, and you can and do

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:48:16 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level >> formatted from factory :-) > > That shows how long it's been since I

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) That shows how long it's been since I installed a new drive. The last time that I did so, it was the curren

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:30:24 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2011 17:25:16 Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: >> > On 2011-09-25, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 17:25:16 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2011-09-25, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >>> On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: > No new modern hard disk will come partiti

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 16:49:35 Camaleón wrote: > I never buy those pre-boxed disks... I prefer to get an external USB/ > Firewire case and put an internal disk on it, they're far better and > easily to upgrade than the others ;-) After this battle, I think that I shall remember that! Thanks

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-09-25, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) >

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Curt
On 2011-09-25, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: >>> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level >>> formatted from factory :-) >> >> Unless it's external. > > Barracuda disks are no

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: >> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level >> formatted from factory :-) > > Unless it's external. Barracuda disks are not usually external. Seagate uses fancy name

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: > No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level > formatted from factory :-) Unless it's external. Then it will be clogged up with Windows stuff that it will relinquish only very, very reluctantly. I still haven't got my

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: (...) >> Do I need to make changes in the BIOS to recognize SATA drives? > > Obviously, I needed to answer my own question. Yes! I did need to > activate SATA in the BIOS. (...) It's not very

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have inst