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On Monday 05 October 2009, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, george parker wrote: > > 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/B000S87GG > >>>0 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. > > There's usually a 2nd option to let you select which hard drive to boot > from. Sometimes you need to set it, save the config, then reset the > computer rather than just exiting the BIOS though. I've built many Asus > based systems over the years like this. > > Gordon You are indeed, as ever, correct Gordon. Thankyou. There is an option to select hard drive priority which I missed. More haste less speed as they say. I like the Asus mobo overall. As I've said before, I had real problems getting it's intel based audio to work, but did in the end and it only had 1 ps2 socket for either mouse or keyboard. I had to buy a USB mouse. My fault for not reading the spec close enough. I think maybe 2 glasses of wine should be the cut off point when placing orders. 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