Re: [opensuse] Upgraded Hardware - Foreseeable Problems?

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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