[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Steve Hodge]

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

>
>    - 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.
>
> One more option: buy a SATA controller that handles SATA II. One caveat
though: a lot of cheap SATA controllers also do RAID and some of them can
only boot off RAID arrays, not off single drives. I found this with DSE's
cheap SATA controller (
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH8269). I got around
the issue by using a compact flash to IDE adapter with a 32MB CF card I had
lying around to do the actual boot - this avoids adding an IDE drive (which
would make the machine louder) or buying a replacement IDE drive.
Incidentally the SATA drive I'm using is a Seagate 500GB SATA II model -
might even be the same as your drive.

Cheers,
Steve
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