[mythtv-users] Suitable Hardware

[Brian Wood]

Mike LaPlante wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>> Mike OZ wrote:
>>   
>>> Thanks Scott
>>>  
>>> I have just found that my suggested mother board only has one IDE
>>> controller. Seems that this is general with just about all boards and
>>> has caught me by surprise. Guess I should buy MBs more often.
>>>  
>>> My solution is to use a "InnoVISION EIO-1680 ATA-133 IDE RAID
>>> Controller" which uses the PCI bus. I already have two 300gb IDE drives
>>> which I want to use. Do you think that it would work okay. The
>>> InnoVISION site does not give specs for the board but elsewhere there
>>> are comments that it works with Linux OS. Does that mean it will work
>>> with all versions?
>>>
>>>     
>> Do you mean only 1 PATA port? I haven't seen a board that didn't have 2
>> PATA ports (two IDE controllers), but I don't buy a lot of mobos.
>>   
> That's pretty common these days 4 to 6 SATA ports and one PATA port.

Well I guess as long as it can boot from a SATA drive that would be OK.

What's to go next, the floppy port?

I have some mobos where the only way to upgrade the BIOS is via floppy.

beww