[ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

[Barry Drake]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> You might find it could be an SATA cable.  Chances are you're not going 
> to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route 
> of SATA.

First thing I did was try a new SATA cable.  I found a 320 GiB IDE drive
at Amazon quite cheaply, so I'm getting that.  I'm very reluctant to
re-flash the BIOS as a) it may not work (the updates give reasons and
none of them are SATA-related).  And b), if it goes wrong, there's no
way out if you can't boot!

> You may however find that either a PCI (or PCI Express) SATA controller 
> or an IDE to SATA convertor may also do the job (it allows you to use an 
> SATA drive on an IDE connection)...

I hadn't thought about a PCI SATA adaptor.  That might have been an easy
answer.  The SATA/IDE adaptor would have been OK if I had two IDE slots.
SATA adaptors can't do master/slave drives, so I would have lost the DVD
drive.  I guess the new PCI drive will keep us going for the rest of the
computer's life.

Regards,		Barry.
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