Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2488 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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