[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Sam Banks]

Very strange as Linux generally ignores the BIOS

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Toby Mills <toby at np.co.nz> 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.
>
> Toby
>
> 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> 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> <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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