On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > You might find it could be an SATA cable. Chances are you're not going > to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route > of SATA.
First thing I did was try a new SATA cable. I found a 320 GiB IDE drive at Amazon quite cheaply, so I'm getting that. I'm very reluctant to re-flash the BIOS as a) it may not work (the updates give reasons and none of them are SATA-related). And b), if it goes wrong, there's no way out if you can't boot! > You may however find that either a PCI (or PCI Express) SATA controller > or an IDE to SATA convertor may also do the job (it allows you to use an > SATA drive on an IDE connection)... I hadn't thought about a PCI SATA adaptor. That might have been an easy answer. The SATA/IDE adaptor would have been OK if I had two IDE slots. SATA adaptors can't do master/slave drives, so I would have lost the DVD drive. I guess the new PCI drive will keep us going for the rest of the computer's life. Regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
