Many thanks for your encouraging reply. Yes, I did mean IDE. On Sunday February 04, 2007 7:53:17 am Anders Johansson wrote: > 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
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