up to which speed can I use IDE!

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As I can see, most of the new PC have sata drives. Clearly this is because
the technical problems in designing connections and boards with paralell
systems for high speeds.

I however will even on a potential new computer need to do DOS operations,
there will have to be a native dos partition operating serial 232 port etc.
However as far as I know only most recent OS will support sata.
Also some of my older Linux systems needed for work will not support sata.
IDE is a must for me therefore still.

Therefore a question:
up to which proc and bus speed are mainboards with IDE avaiable or better
say up to which speed will this also work?
 
Otto Sykora said:
As I can see, most of the new PC have sata drives. Clearly this is because
the technical problems in designing connections and boards with paralell
systems for high speeds.

I however will even on a potential new computer need to do DOS operations,
there will have to be a native dos partition operating serial 232 port
etc.
However as far as I know only most recent OS will support sata.
Also some of my older Linux systems needed for work will not support sata.
IDE is a must for me therefore still.

Therefore a question:
up to which proc and bus speed are mainboards with IDE avaiable or better
say up to which speed will this also work?
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As far as I know, there is no processor speed that "breaks" real mode
ms-dos. There are limitations for older windows versions. There is the
rollover problem with last version of microsoft's fdisk past 128GB partition
sizes formatted. There is a data storage problem when accessed and written
by some older versions of windows and ms-dos past 128GB stored on the same
physical hard drive, not related to fdisk but the OS.

You can do your own mainboard shopping.

None of which is related to XP hardware.
 
well yes, the speed itself is not the problem probably, but rather the
question of supportiung still IDE drive. I see that most recent systems sold
will offer only SATA drives?
Or is there anyway allways an IDE connection on such borad?
 
well yes, the speed itself is not the problem probably, but rather the
question of supportiung still IDE drive. I see that most recent systems
sold
will offer only SATA drives?
Or is there anyway allways an IDE connection on such borad?
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As I previously stated, you can do your own motherboard shopping.
 
Otto:
Virtually every motherboard currently being produced is equipped with at
least one IDE channel; in many cases two IDE channels although it seems more
& more motherboard manufacturers are going to one IDE channel. I can't
imagine that situation will change soon in that accommodation still has to
be made for IDE/ATAPI optical drives - since only a tiny minority of those
devices are being produced with a SATA interface.

Anyway if worse comes to worse you can always use a PCI controller card
designed for one or more PATA HDDs.
Anna
 
Anna said:
Otto:
Virtually every motherboard currently being produced is equipped with at
least one IDE channel; in many cases two IDE channels although it seems more
& more motherboard manufacturers are going to one IDE channel. I can't
imagine that situation will change soon in that accommodation still has to
be made for IDE/ATAPI optical drives - since only a tiny minority of those
devices are being produced with a SATA interface.

Anyway if worse comes to worse you can always use a PCI controller card
designed for one or more PATA HDDs.
Anna
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OK this is what I wanted to know. Thanks.
So no problem even with the present funcy computers I will be able somehow
to run an IDE drive.
 
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