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On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:00:27 +0100 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? 2/ Any opinions on having SATA and IDE in one ubuntu > machine? 3/ Any opinions on which new hard drive (Samsung Spin Point > F1 1TB Internal SATA Hard Drive for £56 was what I was thinking of, > as opposed to ~ £45 for 500 MB ide) > > Many thanks That looks like a pretty funky device. My "media centre" machine runs *Ubuntu and has: 1xPATA HDD (80GB) 1xPATA CDRW 1xSATA HDD (1TB) 1xSATA DVDRW It sees them all fine and doesn't get confused over which device is which. Grant. -- 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