[mythtv-users] RE: mythfrontend setup for around $300 ??

[Robert Kulagowski]

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> The nice thing about this setup is that you aren't limited to the 1
> IDE  connection that the Pundit is limited to.  If you added a
> DVD-ROM to the  pundit, all of a sudden, your HD can only be
> accessed at ATA-33 speeds.  

Umm, I _have_ a Pundit, and I'm certainly not seeing my hard drive
being accessed at ATA-33 speeds, and it's on the same cable as a DVD:

[root at livingroom home]# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.33 seconds =387.88 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.36 seconds = 47.06 MB/sec

Jun  8 14:48:25 livingroom kernel: hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB)
w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jun  8 14:48:25 livingroom kernel: hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive,
512kB Cache, UDMA(33)

It is true however that there's only 1 IDE port.  There is USB2.0 and
Firewire, so you could certainly add external space, or mount a
second hard drive in a 5.25->3.5" adapter and install it where the
DVD is.

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