-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 01:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
It easily might. You can generally clone from PATA to PATA and from SATA to SATA in order to replace an old with a new. To clone from PATA to SATA or vice versa is fraught with booby traps.
1-The drivers each uses is usually different.
2-Each PATA can have up to 62 usable partitions. Each SATA can have only 14.
3-The BIOS order of each may not be what you would like, or easy to change to what you might like. This falls through to /dev & grub device order and fstab.
Don't forget that device names change (/dev/hd? <--> /dev/sd?), creating havoc in fstab and/or grub.
You can reduce potential problems by setting labels on your partitions first, then converting fstab and grub to use those labels instead of device names, all before first trying to add a SATA HD to the system.
Right.
Life is simpler if sticking exclusively to one or the other, which may include using hardware adapter(s) to convert one type for use as the other type. -- "Either the constitution controls the judges, or the judges rewrite the constitution." Judge Robert Bork
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