Gregory Seidman put forth on 7/22/2010 9:45 AM: > Nope, it's a tower: > ThinkCentre M52 3.2GHz Intel Pentium IV Desktop PC
> The tower was purchased refurbished, but is probably circa 2004. The > drives, cables, and enclosures are no more than two years old. Both external drives are native SATA correct? I think your best course of action at this point would be to purchase a $15-20 two port PCI SATA card based on a SiI 3512 chipset, any internal SATA data/power cables you'd need, and move the drives inside the PC. This will allow smartmontools, hdparm, and other utils to identify the drives, and you'll likely get a nice speed boost as well, especially if that PC has a 66MHz 32bit PCI slot, which will allow full bandwidth to both drives simultaneously. Newegg has everything you need. I recommend the Koutech 3512 based card. I have one in my server and it works very well. I gave $15 for it but I think it's up to $20 now, which is still very reasonable. You should be able to pick up the Koutech, 2 x 3.5" to 5.25" generic drive bay adapters if you need them, and 2 combo SATA data/power cables for $30-40 including shipping. If that PC has motherboard down SATA ports you're in business with no cash outlay, assuming you have SATA data/power cables. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c487141.70...@hardwarefreak.com
