[CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

Sat Feb 8 12:52:30 UTC 2014
Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>

Timothy Murphy wrote on Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:40:24 +0000:

> As you see, there is an empty (and slightly smaller) "slot"
> between the SATA connectors and the power connector.

That "power connector" is a jumper bay. As Miguel explains the two "L-
shaped" things are what gets used for SATA (the short one is data, the 
long one is power). An old IDE drive would have had a Molex power 
connector on the right - where you see "nothing" now.

BTw: you *do* realize that naming it "hard disk geometry" implies 
something very different to the reader?

Kai