<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2012 11:22 AM, "Collins Richey" <<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dennis J Perkins<br>
<<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm responding from my tablet and it looks like I can't bottom post. Apologies.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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Mint 12 handles the raid1 and sata just fine. I just needed to reverse<br>
the sata cables to be able to boot.<br>
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><br>
> 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.<br>
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Yeah, I know. I was just surprised that a fairly recent Knoppix had problems.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> You can buy SATA cables that have a straight connector and an L connector. Maybe Micro center has them. Or try New egg.<br>
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Yeah, I know. I was just curious if there is any real difference in<br>
use of the cables.<br>
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--<br>
Collins Richey<br>
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries<br>
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.<br>
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