What's wrong with this?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Franc Zabkar
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Hmm. That they are using a very old ATA disk?

Arno
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It's a parallel ATA drive connected to a SATA port. I know it can be
done using SATA-PATA interface cards, but why?

- Franc Zabkar
 
Franc said:
It's a parallel ATA drive connected to a SATA port. I know it can be
done using SATA-PATA interface cards, but why?
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I'm using those devices here myself, on a couple of old 200GB and 300GB
IDE drives, which I've converted to SATA. The main reason for doing that
is because there is a dearth of IDE connections these days with newer
motherboards. They supply maybe just one IDE port for a couple of
master/slave optical drives, these days.

Yousuf Khan
 
I'm using those devices here myself, on a couple of old 200GB and 300GB
IDE drives, which I've converted to SATA. The main reason for doing that
is because there is a dearth of IDE connections these days with newer
motherboards. They supply maybe just one IDE port for a couple of
master/slave optical drives, these days.
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I have basically phased out IDE for normal operation, but I still
have 5 or so IDE drives that I use for experiments and today
they are typically attached to SATA via converters I bought during
the transition phase.

Arno
 
Arno said:
I have basically phased out IDE for normal operation, but I still
have 5 or so IDE drives that I use for experiments and today
they are typically attached to SATA via converters I bought during
the transition phase.
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I've also mentioned that miraculously somehow when using these IDE
drives in SATA form, one of the drive's spin retry count problem went away.

Yousuf Khan
 
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