[clue] fun (not!) with a new computer

Dennis J Perkins djperkins77 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 11:28:41 MDT 2012


No.  Just convenience in many cases.  I needed them because the drives were
too close to the PS cables and the L connector solved that.  The MB needed
straight connectors.
On Sep 23, 2012 11:22 AM, "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dennis J Perkins
> <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I'm responding from my tablet and it looks like I can't bottom post.
>  Apologies.
> >
> > It was a problem with SATA and video that made me try Arch Linux.  None
> of the other distros could handle such a new South bridge chip.  Of course,
> that meant I had to do some things manually, such as installing X.
>
> Mint 12 handles the raid1 and sata just fine. I just needed to reverse
> the sata cables to be able to boot.
>
> >
> > That board uses the Radeon HD 4250.  AMD's Catalyst driver or Xorg's
> xf86-video-ati driver should work and give you the desired resolution.
>  Xorg should be able to handle this automatically without configuring.
>
> Yeah, I know. I was just surprised that a fairly recent Knoppix had
> problems.
>
> >
> > You can use UUID instead of SDA, SDB, to specify the drives to avoid
> worrying about drive order.  I don't recall the command for determining the
> uuid of a drive.
> >
> > You can buy SATA cables that have a straight connector and an L
> connector.  Maybe Micro center has them.  Or try New egg.
>
> Yeah, I know. I was just curious if there is any real difference in
> use of the cables.
>
>
> --
> Collins Richey
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>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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