Sata is rapidly becoming standard on laptops now.<br>I buy in about a dozen a month at the moment, normally Toshiba, hp and samsung. All have 2.5" Sata.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Gregory Orange</b> <<a href="mailto:gregory.orange@metoceanengineers.com">gregory.orange@metoceanengineers.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
sothisistheinternet wrote:<br>> Unlikely to be sata on a laptop...unless it's something bleeding edge<br>> that I'm unaware of from HP. As Shannon asked: what's the issue?<br><br>I bought an HP notebook (nx6320 or nc6320 from memory) a few weeks ago
<br>which contained a SATA drive. It caused problems until I disabled<br>"Native SATA mode" in BIOS as directed by HP. Then there's a driver<br>which I've yet to install, which should enable MS Windows to see the
<br>drive with this mode re-enabled.<br><br>Thankfully I had no such trouble booting the machine using a Gentoo<br>bootdisk for many enjoyable seconds of filesystem manipulation.<br><br>Greg.<br>_______________________________________________
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