On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:34, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: > I am currently running SuSE v9.3 on an old, slow 32bit CPU and am > contemplating several upgrades in sequence. I would appreciate some advise > as I am definitely not a hardware person and primarily run other folks > scientific software (I have a research program in computational chemistry) > rather than write my own. > > The CPU I'm looking at is the AMD Athlon 64 3500+. The motherboard is a > MSI K9N Neo-F, MS-7260 Ver 1.0 K9N nForce 550 (I don't know anything about > hardware, but I can copy a label). > > The motherboard only has one PCI slot for a master and a slave.
I guess you mean IDE here > My current > linux box has 3 HD's, but I'm prepared to give one up (keep it as a spare > for my Win XP machine). There are 4 SATA connections, but I know nothing > about them. I presume that any hard drive connected to one of those must > be a SATA HD, or is there some sort of adapter? Also, what about DC/DVD > drive how would that be connected? Normally on the IDE cable, the same connection as for the hard drives > I have an old CD drive on the linux box > now, but am willing to upgrade it to a DVD. > > Sorry to have asked so many low level questions, but, as I said, I'm not a > hardware person. Well, I didn't actually see a question anywhere. The hardware looks decent enough. If you want to keep using your IDE drives, there are IDE controllers you can buy, that connect to a PCI slot. This way you could use all your old drives, plus a DVD, even when the motherboard doesn't have room for them. It is a good idea to go SATA though, if it's in your budget I would throw in one or two SATA drives into the package if I were you -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
