Is there a big difference between SATA and IDE?
Excuse my ignorance, I come from the mac side...

2005/4/25, Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>:
> Gerardo =C1lvarez <galvarez3d@gmail.com> writes:
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> > I have received a 9500, I want to use it for ftp/web/SQL-PHP serving.
> > I have somehow/somewhat installed 2.0 on it but now I find its 2 GB HD
> > is way too small for what I need (call me greedy if you want)
> > It came with three external noisy hard disks, which add up 45 Gb.
> > These disks are SCA. Is this supported under netbsd-macppc?
> > Other possible solution would be to get a PCI-SATA adapter, like this
> > one (http://www.sonnettech.com/publicfiles/pdfs/pdf_datasheets/temposat=
a_datasheet.pdf)
> > and then some cheaper HD. Althought this is not cheap, it seems a
> > viable solution since the PCI card can be reused on almost any other
> > PCI mac. Is this supported / advisable?
> > Or find some SCSI HD in ebay, although I have looked around and waht I
> > find is not cheap (I live in spain)
> > What would you recommend?
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> Why not get a PCI IDE card and stick in a huge check IDE disk?
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> -russ
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Gerardo =C1lvarez.
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