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-rw-r--r--en/preparing/needed-info.xml2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/installation-media.xml b/en/hardware/installation-media.xml
index 93fe9c29d..3347111a5 100644
--- a/en/hardware/installation-media.xml
+++ b/en/hardware/installation-media.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ up by other means; see <xref linkend="boot-installer"/>.
</para><para arch="x86">
-Both SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs are supported. The <ulink
+SCSI, SATA and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs are supported. The <ulink
url="&url-cd-howto;">Linux CD-ROM HOWTO</ulink> contains in-depth information
on using CD-ROMs with Linux.
@@ -182,15 +182,15 @@ installed on the widest array of hardware.
</para><para arch="x86">
Generally, the Debian installation system includes support for floppies,
-IDE drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SCSI controllers and
-drives, USB, and FireWire. The supported file systems include FAT,
-Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT) and NTFS.
+IDE (also known as PATA) drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SATA
+and SCSI controllers and drives, USB, and FireWire. The supported file systems
+include FAT, Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT) and NTFS.
</para><para arch="i386">
Disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote> hard disk interface
-&mdash; often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA &mdash; are supported. SCSI disk
-controllers from many different manufacturers are supported. See the
+&mdash; often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or PATA &mdash; are supported. SATA and
+SCSI disk controllers from many different manufacturers are supported. See the
<ulink url="&url-hardware-howto;">Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO</ulink>
for more details.
diff --git a/en/preparing/needed-info.xml b/en/preparing/needed-info.xml
index 04574e748..7589751f8 100644
--- a/en/preparing/needed-info.xml
+++ b/en/preparing/needed-info.xml
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ networking and e-mail.
<row arch="not-s390"><entry>Their order on the system.</entry></row>
<!-- "not-m68k;not-s390" would really turn out to be everything... -->
<row arch="alpha;arm;hppa;x86;ia64;mips;mipsel;powerpc;sparc">
- <entry>Whether IDE or SCSI (most computers are IDE).</entry>
+ <entry>Whether IDE (also known as PATA), SATA or SCSI.</entry>
</row>
<row arch="m68k">
<entry>Whether IDE or SCSI (most m68k computers are SCSI).</entry>