Hard drive choice

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:57 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:04 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >> Net Llama! wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >>>> Net Llama! wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>>> But I have lots of PCI slots on this MB so
> >>>>>> can I get more controllers for more drives?  Don't laugh if it's a
> >>>>>> stupid question; how am I supposed to know, eh?
> >>>>> Yes, you could purchase additional PCI SATA controllers to attach more
> >>>>> drives.  I'm puzzled as to why your mobo only has two SATA connectors.
> >>>>> Every board I've seen in the past few years usually has 4 or more.  I've
> >>>>> even seen a few with 16(!).
> >>>> It doesn't have SATA connectors, it has IDE connectors.
> >>>> But that's good news about the multiple SATA thing.
> >>>> Oh, boy, oh, boy, I'm going to Fry's, I'm going to Fry's.
> >>> You bought a new motherboard
> >> not really
> >>
> >>> that has no SCSI or SATA controllers?  I hope 
> >>> this board was really really really cheap.
> >> yes, it was really, really, really, really cheap.
> > 
> > ... and the sun was over the yardarm. YoHo, Ric
> > 
> 
> You're just jealous 'cause you didn't score a free muthaboard.

Yes, I did as a matter of fact! :P I'm royally pissed that I don't have
my Unisys 5000/90 to play with anymore. Damn thing was too huge to move,
it had three 800 lb cabinets that contained two harddrives and streaming
tape drives. Blinky lights. <sigh> Big Iron. <sobs> Ric

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