S-ATA HDD?

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Dave Reid

I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb HDD. I
have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that it will not
work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can I fix it without
sending back the HDD?


TIA

Dave

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Dave said:
I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb
HDD. I have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that
it will not work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can
I fix it without sending back the HDD?


TIA

Dave

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Let's see you purchased a S-ATA drive without checking whether your
motherboard was S-ATA compatible?! My, that was mighty sensible! Whilst I
know of cards that will allow you to connect P-ATA drives to S-ATA, I don't
know of anything that will convert a P-ATA motherboard to S-ATA. There is no
way a motherboard that old (i.e. old enough to be running a 2000+) will
support S-ATA.

Hope you can get your money back - otherwise it's a very expensive
mistake...
 
I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb HDD. I
have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that it will not
work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can I fix it without
sending back the HDD?
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Some socket A boards have SATA support, others don't. Since
yours seems not to, your options are sending the drive back
and getting an ATA instead, or buying a PCI SATA controller
card.

If you aren't sure if it does, seek the manufacturer's specs
for it or give us a link to the product page.

Returning the drive for an ATA version may be cheaper and
will be faster for most (all but oldest) socket A boards due
to moving the HDD controller off the PCI bus, but adding a
PCI card allows greater total number of drives in the
system... your call.
 
Dave Reid said:
I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb HDD.
I
have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that it will not
work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can I fix it without
sending back the HDD?


TIA

Dave

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Buy a PCI SATA Controller, they cost less than £20. Depending on the power
connection on your SATA drive you may need to get an adaptor to convert the
normal power plug into the SATA smaller shape plug.

Paul
 
Dave Reid said:
I have a Socket A M/B with an Athlon XP2000 chip. I also have an 80Gb HDD.
I
have just cought a new 250 Gb S-ATA drive and am now told that it will not
work with my old motherboard. Is my friend right, and can I fix it without
sending back the HDD?


TIA

Dave

....remove the obvious from addy to reply
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yeah you cant use SATA drives on ATA MBs unless you get a PCI card with SATA
connections on it, this wont utilise the full bandwidth of the SATA drive
but will let you use it

alternatively just send it back and get an ATA133 or 100 drive, advantages
on both sides

the PCI card would allow you to save a IDE/ATA controller on the board,
which would allow you to add another ATA100/133 drive in the future, where
as getting the ATA100/133 straight away will save you money and hassle of
fiding a decent a SATA PCI controller
 
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Tick said:
Let's see you purchased a S-ATA drive without checking whether your
motherboard was S-ATA compatible?! My, that was mighty sensible! Whilst I
know of cards that will allow you to connect P-ATA drives to S-ATA, I don't
know of anything that will convert a P-ATA motherboard to S-ATA. There is no
way a motherboard that old (i.e. old enough to be running a 2000+) will
support S-ATA.
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Just about any PCI SATA card will work on virtually any motherboard out
there. It will add to the cost, but not significantly.
 
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