Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Drummond
David King wrote: > > > Daniel Drummond wrote: > >> Josh Holland wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote: >>> >>> >>> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's drives become SDA and SDB and t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-10-01 Thread David King
I found that not using UUID caused headaches, as the PC, when booting up, recognised the drives in a different order each time (using SATA drives, and for a while some IDE drives too). So I think that using UUID is essential for all internal drives. I have found it best for USB drives to not be

[ubuntu-uk] IDE to Sata

2009-10-01 Thread John Davis
IDE to SATA Card. Many thanks to the group for your replies to the IDE SATA connection problems. John-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Steve
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:53:14 +0100, Josh Holland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote: >> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI >> card's >> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a >> bit of twiddling with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Drummond
Josh Holland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote: > >> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's >> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a >> bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing inst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Josh Holland
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote: > The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's > drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a > bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing installation. Isn't this what UUI

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Steve
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:18:56 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Matt Jones wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM, John Davis wrote: >> >>> This is not a linux question as such but I know someone will know the >>> answer! >>> >>> My computers hard drive is full. I have finally persuaded the Missus >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Rob Beard
Matt Jones wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM, John Davis wrote: > >> This is not a linux question as such but I know someone will know the >> answer! >> >> My computers hard drive is full. I have finally persuaded the Missus to have >> a go at Ubuntu. I would like to buy a 500 gig SATA h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Matt Jones
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM, John Davis wrote: > This is not a linux question as such but I know someone will know the > answer! > > My computers hard drive is full. I have finally persuaded the Missus to have > a go at Ubuntu. I would like to buy a 500 gig SATA hard drive Partition it > half

[ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread John Davis
This is not a linux question as such but I know someone will know the answer! My computers hard drive is full. I have finally persuaded the Missus to have a go at Ubuntu. I would like to buy a 500 gig SATA hard drive Partition it half for Wind**s and Ubuntu as the main. I know I have to get an