[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Criggie]

Maybe - try booting off a smaller disk and use the 500GB as a secondary
drive.  Linux can deal with disks that the BIOS can't cope with.


Sam Banks wrote:
> 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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