[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Sam Banks]

You need to flash your bios to support bigger disks, what is the model of
the motherboard?

Sam

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Toby Mills <toby at np.co.nz> wrote:

>  ok, so I get the feeling this is going to be one of those painful
> experiences....
>
> My older gigabyte motherboard on the backend isn't detecting my new 500Gb
> SATA drive (checked in a PC at work and the drive is fine), tried IDE mode
> and everything I could google on it.
> So I'm left with the following thoughts....
>
>    - 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.
>     - Or do I put the new drive in a USB2 case and put up with the
>    significantly reduced access speed.
>    - Or do I use the SATA for something else and get an IDE version.
>     - Or do I buy a NAS enclosure and run it so that the Frontends pull
>    media directly off the NAS rather than via backend.
>    - Or do I muck around for 3 days trying to get the BIOS to recognise
>    the drive.
>
> In the end, I came to the conclusion that none of the above solutions are
> really ideal and all of the compromises are too high.
>
> So I think I've decided to....
>
>    - Buy a Linksys NAS200 and will put the SATA drive into that, this
>    will be used for storing all none TV media like images, MP3's, xvids and raw
>    video from my camcorder that hasn't been edited yet, i'll mount my
>    /myth/video directory on that using Samba.Works out ok because my other
>    storage is splitting at the seams with non myth media.
>     - Bought another 500Gb Ide drive that will go into the myth box.
>
> A few years ago I might have mucked around with it trying to get it going,
> but I've learnt that 9 times out of 10 when you do this, it will only break
> at some highly inconvinient point in the future and probably won't work
> anyway. Unfortunately my first experience with SATA has not been a pleasant
> one.
>
> Cheers
> Toby
>
>
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