[mythtvnz] Best mythbuntu upgrade path...

[Sam Banks]

I got a cheap SATA card from Dick Smith which doesn't have that restriction
and works automtically with Linux, could check out the model if you were
gonna go down that track

Sam

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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