On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Toby Mills <<a href="mailto:toby@np.co.nz">toby@np.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><ul><li>Do I upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM just so I can use my new
Hard drive - but then most new motherboards don't have serial ports to
change channels or enough PC cards to run 2 x Skystar + 1 x PVR150 and
another NIC.<br>
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<li>Or do I put the new drive in a USB2 case and put up with the
significantly reduced access speed.</li>
<li>Or do I use the SATA for something else and get an IDE version.<br>
</li>
<li>Or do I buy a NAS enclosure and run it so that the Frontends pull
media directly off the NAS rather than via backend.</li>
<li>Or do I muck around for 3 days trying to get the BIOS to
recognise the drive.<br></li></ul></div></blockquote><div>One more option: buy a SATA controller that handles SATA II. One caveat though: a lot of cheap SATA controllers also do RAID and some of them can only boot off RAID arrays, not off single drives. I found this with DSE's cheap SATA controller (<a href="http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH8269">http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH8269</a>). I got around the issue by using a compact flash to IDE adapter with a 32MB CF card I had lying around to do the actual boot - this avoids adding an IDE drive (which would make the machine louder) or buying a replacement IDE drive. Incidentally the SATA drive I'm using is a Seagate 500GB SATA II model - might even be the same as your drive.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>