ata-133 on serial ata?

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Simon-Pierre

hi all
Im going to be getting an asus a7n8x deluxe, and i was wondering can i
connect an ata-133 hard drive to the serial ata connecter, do they give an
adapter in the motherboard box? And also can i conect optical drives to the
serial ata connecters
 
Simon-Pierre said:
hi all
Im going to be getting an asus a7n8x deluxe, and i was wondering can i
connect an ata-133 hard drive to the serial ata connecter, do they
give an adapter in the motherboard box? And also can i conect optical
drives to the serial ata connecters
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You need an adapter (not included) to go from normal parallel ATA to SATA,
but you won't gain much from doing that, unless you have 5 ATA devices.

I have heard that you can't connect optical drives to the SATA controllers
via the adapter cards, maybe they don't support ATAPI or something.

Ben
 
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