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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Thanks All</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">The computer I want to set will become a back end finally. The mother board is an ATX and so has 3 PCI slots. The only boards I can find that have more than 1 IDE are ASROCK. When I search the web ASROCK does not have good cred for Linux.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Either I can junk two perfectly good 300GB IDE drives and buy SATA at $300 or buy a controller card at $31. I don't care if is RAID or not I just want to use the drives!<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:18:06 -0400, Scott wrote:<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:46 -0400, John Drescher wrote:</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> > If you want RAID I suspect that board would work, but buying it just to</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> > get additional PATA ports is bad economics. It also ties up a PCI slot,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> > those are getting scarcer with the PCI-Express mobos.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> ></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> > Personally if I wanted RAID I'd go with Linux software RAID, not a H/W</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> > controller, but many disagree with me on that.</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> ></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> I assume it is a fake raid controller. I don't know what this one</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> costs but a few IDE fake raid controllers can be had for less than $20</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">> US.<br /><br /></span></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">I'll second for software RAID over fakeraid. If you're going to do RAID,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">and cannot afford a true HW RAID controller, then just get a PCI board</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">that handles 2 or 4 IDE drives and forget about the RAID part. You can</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">do better with Linux software RAID I think.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Scott <list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc><br /><br /></span></div>
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