[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Andrew Gordon]

Toby Mills wrote:
> yes, thats right,
> 
> no sd devices at all in /dev
> 
> Thats why I started digging a little deaper, checked kernel support and 
> it simply isn't picking it up at all.
> 
> I've come back to the conclusion the BIOS just isn't up to it.

You said it was an early board to have SATA, so is the board only SATA 1 
and the new drive SATA 2?  The SATA 2 drives I have had you have to put 
a jumper on them to make them work on SATA 1 ports.





> 
> Sam Banks wrote:
>> Thats weird, nothing comes up when you:
>>
>> ls /dev/sd*
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Toby Mills <toby at np.co.nz 
>> <mailto:toby at np.co.nz>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks, yes tried both those, its a Gigabyte 8IPE1000 pro2
>>     Running the latest bios and have run it as a secondary both as a
>>     bridged IDE and as SATA (even tried running it as a primary and
>>     disconnecting everything else).
>>     Bios doesn't pick it up, and its not coming through to linux
>>     either (nothing in a dmesg or lsmod).
>>
>>     It was one of the earlier boards to have SATA so I think its just
>>     a little too old. The BIOS unfortunately doesn't have the raid
>>     bits that I think are needed to get things going in Linux.
>>
>>     I'm not trying to boot off it, just trying to format and mount it
>>     before I do my big upgrade next week.
>>
>>     Cheers
>>     Toby
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Criggie wrote:
>>>     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> <mailto: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