On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Murphy composed on 2015-08-06 13:19 (UTC-0600): > >> Adam Williamson wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 13:55 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: > >>>> for testing purposes I use a fast Laptop (with Win 8.1) and Fedora on >>>> an external disk. >>>> For F23 testing is it preferable to have the system on an PATA >>>> external disk? or SATA ext. disk? Or should this be no matter of >>>> significance? > >>> I wouldn't say there's a huge difference. > >> Have there been successes with SATA with failures with PATA? What was >> the nature? They're both handled by libata and seem sufficiently >> abstracted that I'd be surprised if the installer is aware of the >> difference. > > Looking at all the thread responses, I don't understand any of them. OP is > using a laptop right? While his external *might* be on eSATA, it's more > likely on Firewire, yet almost certainly on USB, especially if not a Mac, and > just as close to certainly *not* on PATA. Whether on Firewire or USB, neither > kernel nor drivers will know whether the outside end is on PATA or SATA, > right? Right. > IOW, answer to OP is no difference whatsover, except possibly for a > slight speed difference if USB3 rather than USB2 or Firewire. Yeah. And I don't even know if Fedora supports those interfaces for booting. Obviously USB is for install media, because it has to, but for /boot or root fs? I don't think so. There's no test for it anyway. -- Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
