[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors
Harry Devine
lifter89 at comcast.net
Sat Jul 18 03:59:06 UTC 2009
Brian Wood wrote:
> On Friday 17 July 2009 21:13:05 Harry Devine wrote:
>
>
>> I was able to find an updated BIOS for the card, but my only Windows
>> machine doesn't have a PCIe x1 interface in it, so I can't update it.
>>
>
> I'm not sure, I've never tried it, but I think you can put an x1 card into an
> x4, x8 or x16 slot, if your machine has a spare one of those.
>
I tried that and my Windows machine wouldn't boot. I'll try it again
tomorrow and see. Maybe it was a fluke thing. Not sure.
>
>> At this point, I'm thinking I should just order a new MB. I really
>> don't want to but I don't have much of a choice. My last resort is to
>> take the card into work and see if there's a Windows PC there that I can
>> install the card into and update it that way.
>>
>
> I'd think another option would be to find a different SATA card that
> cooperates better with your mobo's BIOS would do it, as would installing the
> firmware that allows it ro run as JBOD. Certainly both those options are
> cheaper.
>
I was looking around on NewEgg and the card I got seemed to be the best
of the bunch. There were only 2 or 3 cards there anyway. Not a huge
selection. I only went the NewEgg route for that card because I
couldn't find anything locally. I went to my local Best Buy and 2
different Staples stores. They didn't have anything remotely close to a
SATA card. LOL!
>
>> I'm just really tired of messing with it at this point. My current
>> system has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ CPU in it, and 2G of OCZ 240-pin
>> DDR2 667 RAM. I found this board on NewEgg:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131381. Looks
>> like it should work. Anyone have any thoughts? I want to be able to
>> pull my my existing CPU/Fan, Memory, and Hard Drives from the current MB
>> and transfer them to the new one.
>>
>
> I can certainly sympathize with your sentiment, and replacing the board is a
> good technical solution. Whenever I do something like that I eventually wind
> up buying the parts to make the old board run anyway.
>
I'm looking at it like this: The IDE ports still work on the current
MB, so it wouldn't take much to get another machine going for some
reason (another Myth frontend perhaps? ;-) ) down the line. Get some
RAM, throw an IDE HD in there, and get going.
>
>> Would Mythbuntu have any issues with this since the MB would be a
>> different one that what I originally installed with? Will I have to
>> reinstall anyway? No big deal if I do since I now can access the drives
>> by putting them into another machine and can grab whatever files I need
>> (dump the Myth DB, Xorg.conf, etc.).
>>
>
> In general in should work, but there are potential gotchas, so back things up
> first. Drive locations might change, and any special drivers the new board
> needs would have to be accomodated, sometimes you just never know.
>
>
>
Understood. Most things I have installed are pretty standard, but I do
have some special things on there that I wouldn't want to lose, like
sipie to stream my Sirius Internet Radio and the assorted XML files to
add it to the Myth menu system. And I had a hell of a time getting LIRC
working right, so those files need to get tucked away for future
reference. :-)
Thanks for the help!
Harry
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