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| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/installation-media.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/preparing/needed-info.xml | 2 |
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 -— often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA — are supported. SCSI disk -controllers from many different manufacturers are supported. See the +— often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or PATA — 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> |