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On Sunday 04 October 2009, Rob Beard wrote: > Henry Bremridge wrote: > > Running ubuntu, she has an Hitachi IDE ATA hard-drive (160GB) and needs > > some more space.. > > > > In googling: > > - SATA disks seem to be larger for the same price than than ATA disks > > - SATA disks require > > - An appropriate motherboard > > - Or an ATA PCI Card (£30 from Maplin, £16 from Dabs, £5 from Amazon) > > - Or an SATA to ATA connector > > > > Then I saw this > > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Port-Expansion-VIA-VT6421a-chipset/dp/B000S87GG0 > > 4 Port SATA PCI Expansion Card &IDE VIA VT6421a chipset (3 Sata plus IDE) > > for £10 > > > > Which I figured I could plug into a spare slot, and add the new SATA > > drive > > > > Question > > > > 1/ Has anyone used one of these things before, can anyone see any > > problems? > > Not used a PCI SATA card myself before but being a VIA chipset I'd say > it should be fairly well supported. > > > 2/ Any opinions on having SATA and IDE in one ubuntu machine? > I bought a new Asus mother board and SATA drive recently. After getting it all up and running I plugged in a PATA drive to transfer stuff from my old Home directory. The mobo recognised both drives but insisted on trying to boot from the PATA drive. I fiddled with the bios but as far as it was concerned if you have a pata drive fitted, it ignores any SATA drives. There are 3 options to boot sequence; removeable device, CD rom and hard drive. The hard drive is selected by the BIOS and it selects pata if one is fitted. There may be a way around this but I fitted the pata drive to another machine to get the info off. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html