From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 17:21:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C63716A402 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C4013C44B for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-65-69-140-8.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [65.69.140.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA48F114307 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:21:24 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <5AC35E86D06C2FFE26A538DB@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <20070119.230644.5451.1711055@webmail56.nyc.untd.com> References: <20070119.230644.5451.1711055@webmail56.nyc.untd.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7b1 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========27BCBE63C4124B7221C8==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: SATA II drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:21:18 -0000 --==========27BCBE63C4124B7221C8========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On January 20, 2007 7:06:27 AM +0000 rcugini@netzero.net wrote: > I have a Promise Tx4 SATA II card with a 1/4 terabyte SATA II Western > digital drive. This drive has some free space, a windows partition and > a Mepis 6.0 Linux partition. > > Will BSD work with a SATA II drive? Will it "see" the other operating > systems? > uname -a FreeBSD utd59514.utdallas.edu 6.0-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Tue=20 Apr 18 08:56:09 UTC 2006=20 root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 ad4: 238418MB at ata2-master SATA150 ad5: 238418MB at ata2-slave SATA150 These are two 300GB drives. This machine has Windows XP SP2 installed as well, although I never use=20 it. After the original install, I've booted into Windows twice to update=20 the patches. (Probably should do that again some time.) I use FreeBSD's native boot manager. It "sees" Windows XP as "Other". Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========27BCBE63C4124B7221C8==========--