New SATA Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    Today I installed the SATA hard drive I ordered and on the 
>> motherboard I found a SATA power plug and I plugged this drive into 
>> the SATA1 plug. I looked at the BIOS and it calls it an IDE drive but 
>> way out in position. I saw no way to tell BIOS it is really a SATA 
>> drive. I guess this is normal :-)
>>
>>    I went looking for the new hard drive with "fdisk" and it was 
>> called /dev/sdf by this F7 computer. I plan to put Windows XP in the 
>> first partition so it will be happy. It's an 8 GB partition so it 
>> will be enough since I will never use it.
>>
>>    Linux will be this F7 transfered to that hard drive in parts. Or 
>> it may be a whole new load. This has not been worked out yet.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Karl, cat /proc/cpuinfo and look for vm in the flags.  You way want to 
> give up dual boot in favor of virtual OSes.  Makes life much easier if 
> there is a Windows app you just cannot live without.
>
> Its no good for gaming or video intensive apps right now, but most 
> else it works at normal performance using the kvm module and qemu-kvm.
>
> You can test easily enough.
>
> # modprobe kvm-intel
> or
> # modprobe kvm-amd
>
> No errors on the command line?
>
> # dmesg | tail
>
> No errors regarding the kvm module?
>
> You can successfully run windows (or whatever) using the kvm switch on 
> your CPU and the kvm module built into the newer kernels.
>
> # yum install kvm qemu ( you need both versions of qemu because all 
> the utilities are not included in the kvm package)
>
> No need to reboot again, ever! :)
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
    Phil no idea who the words were for. Nothing you said has anything 
to do with a SATA hard drive.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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