-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:19:19AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. > > I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a > question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. > > I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has not been > a friend to me. What I found via that route was that the 6 SATA > ports are the same. Should the boot drive be plugged into SATA8G_1?
I don't know about your board, but usually you can set the boot priority order in the BIOS. Probably you can use any of the SATA ports. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAltvBxMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbOtwCeN47d5ERCK3llcQlGVHML3vgM aucAn1UMnpVeZD1+mKNJjhV0mtM7CP6j =KPKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----