<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Nick & Ann Read <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.read@engineer.com">nick.read@engineer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well that didn't work. Failed to read/write the disk with my P3 under<br>
Linux, and worked really slowly on my P4 with windows. Took the plunge<br>
and replaced my P3 with a new(er) celeron MB with SATA. Still getting<br>
that going properly (another story) but at least the disk is great :-)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I guess you didn't have a spare PCI slot for a SATA controller card? I've used a couple of different varieties (<a href="http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/en/product/XH8269">http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/en/product/XH8269</a>, <a href="http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=359940">http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=359940</a>) without any issues.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>