Linuxguy123 wrote: <SNIP> > > One thing that sticks out for me in all this is the SATA data rate. > Both the computer and the drive are supposed to be 3.0Gb/s devices. Yet > the driver wants to connect at 1.5 Gbps. > > The Serial ATA Controller is listed as ahci in hwbrowser. > > # /sbin/lsmod | grep sat > sata_sil24 16069 0 > libata 131937 3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci > > > How should I proceed to get my external drive working ? > Check the manual that came with your motherboard (or the hardware manual that came with your computer). 3.0GB/s SATA is otherwise known as "SATA II", "SATA 3.0" and/or "SATA/300". If it just sez "SATA", it's 1.5Gbs "SATA-I" and you either need a controller card or a new motherboard to use the 3.0GB/s drives. Sadly some SATA-II drives don't automagically downshift to SATA-I mode nicely... you may have one of these. Found out the hard way when I bought 2 VelociRaptor drives'idly, -S -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
