Re: SCSI vs SATA hard disks

Haines Brown wrote:
If I were to attach a SATA drive to my desktop machine, I'd be inclined
to do a cross install of linux to the new SATA drive from my running
SCSI drive. Any reason such a procedure would be problematic because of
the interface difference?

If by cross-install you mean 'disk clone', then this very workable.

I heard on the grape-vine that some folks are preparing some machines in
VirtualBoxes and then later copying them across to the production
machines when they're happy with the core configuration.

If you're using an LVM you might have complications but it's worth a go
to see what happens.

Before you clone install a stock kernel, the ones in Debian at least are
stacked with multiple drivers to get your system up an running,
presumably other distros are the same or very similar in this regard.

G4l is one opensource option for disk cloning, or you could use gparted,
or you could use Acronis TrueImage (a closed source commercial option,
by it is reliable). All of these solutions can resize the new
partition(s) on to the new disk as you'd like them.

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Regards,
Sheridan Hutchinson
Sheridan@xxxxxxxxxx



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