[Xastir] Serial ata drives

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

That'll work, too, but $10-15 for the SATA-to-P-ATA thingie vs $30-70 or 
so for the USB case (in my experience) looks like a discriminating 
factor.  Also, even today, not all motherboards will boot off a 
USB-attached disk.

gerry

BDonnell at ar-northwest.com wrote:
> Another possible choice would be to purchase a USB hard drive enclosure, without an installed hard drive.  Move the drive you want to keep into that enclosure, plug it into your system, and mount the drive.  You may have to poke around a bit, and/or load some modules to support USB hard drives, depending on your Linux distribution, and its abilities when it comes to hotplug support.  At the very least, you can use this means to transfer content to the new system's hard drives, and then continue to keep the old hard drive in the box, and use it as a backup device, or as portable storage, probably bigger than a flash memory stick you might already have.  Since you've gotten a new system, you'll want to make sure that the USB drive enclosure you get supports USB 2.0, for decent performance.
> 
> 73, and good luck!
> 
> Bob, KD7NM
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
>>Behalf Of James Jolin
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:10 PM
>>To: Curt Mills, WE7U
>>Cc: Xastir at xastir.org
>>Subject: [Xastir] Serial ata drives
>>
>>
>>Curt,
>>I know the subject line sounds a bit ot , but I thought I pick the 
>>brains of the group. I just got a new computer with serial 
>>ATA ports.  
>>My linux box is on my older computer on a second harddrive  (ata).  I 
>>would like to take that drive and install it in the new 
>>computer, but I 
>>don't know if that will be compatable.  I could just keep the old 
>>computer, but I'm starting to run out of space.  I really didn't know 
>>where to go with this question, so I thought I start with you all.
>>Jim wa9arb
>>
>>
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