[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

[James Crow]

John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> On a related note, an external SATA->USB adapter is very useful for
>>> drive recovery in these kinds of situations. It allows you to quickly
>>> try various methods to get it back to life without having to mess around
>>> with the internals of your PC.
>>>       
>> I would agree, but with one caveat. I would go for eSATA. USB is just
>> too slow and you are going to have a limited time to get data off. You
>> don't want to waste that precious time you have because your I/O is
>> limited by USB.
>>
>>     
>
> Or you could just get a long enough sata cable so that you can sit the
> drive on your desk or something. Regular SATA is perfectly hot
> swappable with linux. I have used hot swap sata for at minimum 5 years
> on dozens of machines.
>
> John
>   
This board is an Asus nForce4 MB. I was plugging and unplugging the sata 
cable while trying several of the ideas in this thread. I have never 
tried this on other boards, but on this one the internal sata ports are 
hot swap capable on Linux. I also have a USB to IDE/SATA adapter. The 
power supply from it was what I used to power the drive, but the speed 
of USB makes it a less than ideal solution for any large transfers.

Thanks,
James