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Old October 14th 18, 12:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
pjp[_10_]
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Default Move hard drive to different computer?

In article , lid says...

pjp wrote:
In article , bbbl67
@spammenot.yahoo.com says...
On 10/11/2018 6:38 PM, pjp wrote:
Add that you will likely have to enable the proper Sata port in your
BIOS if you attach it internally on a desktop.
All SATA ports are activated, if you have just one already on it.


I have at least two pcs that every SATA port in it has an
Enabled/Disabled setting in the BIOS. You get an error message if it's
Enabled and there's nothing attached to the port and you get nada if
it's disabled and something is attached to the port. Least that's my
experience to date?


I've always left all of mine enabled (for convenience)
and no problemo here. Unpopulated ports resolve on their
own.

Bootup can be *faster*, if you disable all the ports
with no drive on them. But that's a lot of work to arrange,
and any boot time saved, is lost while entering the BIOS
and puttering around. I change disk configurations enough,
that would never be a sensible proposition.

And the enable/disable is *not* sufficient protection to
protect the contents of drives. When you disable a port,
Linux will turn them back on when the Linux drivers
receive handoff. Those controls are not trap-door controls
where hardware write-once prevents changing the bit
setting later. Those appear to be open season.

The rule remains with regard to protecting disks during
OS installations. The only safe option is unplugging
desktop drives you don't want "damaged". Only the target
OS installation drive should be connected, as well as
the optical drive with the install media in it.

Paul


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Old October 15th 18, 07:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Move hard drive to different computer?

On 10/13/2018 3:54 PM, pjp wrote:
I have at least two pcs that every SATA port in it has an
Enabled/Disabled setting in the BIOS. You get an error message if it's
Enabled and there's nothing attached to the port and you get nada if
it's disabled and something is attached to the port. Least that's my
experience to date?


Interesting, must be older motherboards? The only enable/disable
features I've ever seen are to turn the whole controller on or off,
meaning all ports on that controller or none. Like for example, my
current motherboard has 10 SATA ports, 6 of them from the main chipset,
and 4 of them from a 2nd controller chip that attaches via an internal
PCIe.
 




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