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Yes, looked at this one, but all my PCI slots are full :(<br>
I could do it but it would mean dropping one of my two skystar cards,
might be ok with Multirec, but I think i'd sooner run 2 cards so I
don't ever have to worry about conflicts.<br>
<br>
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone, I think if anything its just
confirmed that I have tried everything and there is no easy way around
this so sticking with an IDE disk in my current box is really the only
path forward.<br>
<br>
$167 for a 500Gb Seagate is incredibly cheap, at this price everyone
should seriously consider adding more storage.<br>
<br>
Toby<br>
<br>
Steve Hodge wrote:
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cite="mid:24b589d90804100456t4607cb90s1e5a2ac95ecf7e88@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Toby Mills <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:toby@np.co.nz">toby@np.co.nz</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<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>
</li>
<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>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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