[ltp] Re: T43 report

[Paul Ionescu]

Hi Jeff,

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:26:15 -0700, Jeff Lessem wrote:

> I just got a new T43 fresh off the plane from Hong Kong.  I got it up and
> running with minimal fuss.  Instead of doing a fresh install, I copied the
> hard disk from my recently deceased Dell 4150 laptop over to the T43. 
> With pretty minimal changes I had a Debian Sid based system up and
> running.
> Note:  The 80GB Fujitsu drive is SATA, so I used the Intel ICH SATA
> driver, and the drive is detected as /dev/sda.  The DVD writer is /dev/hdc
> and uses the normal PIIX IDE driver.  Without the SATA driver the hard
> disk is detected as /dev/hda, but runs degraded with no DMA.
> 

Are you sure your Fujitsu HD is SATA ?
I had a look in a T43, and while the interface is SATA, and the harddrive
is seen as sda, the hard itself seems to be PATA (Fujitsu MHT 2080 AH).
I even pulled out the hard, and the connector seems PATA ( a lot of pins).

Thanks,
Paul