[mythtv-users] S-ATA versus plain old parallel

[Chris Petersen]

> BTW I'm looking at an Intel D865GLC board and potentially a 200GB Maxtor
> being fed from my nice shiny new Hauppauge 350.

If you have the cash, go with SATA - drive makers will stop making PATA
drives in the next few years, and with the smaller cable, the inside of
your case will look great (if you want a tip, coil the SATA cable
tightly around a pencil or something similar to shape it - it'll turn
into something resembling a phone handset cord, and looks pretty cool)

As for speed, etc - you're going overkill if you're also including a
pvr-350.  but it'll be a SWEET system, especially if you get a
hyperthreaded proc.

As the others said, you shouldn't have any issues with SATA support if
you use a recent kernel (redhat 9 and up, for that flavor).

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