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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org