What's wrong with this?

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Franc Zabkar

Hmm. That they are using a very old ATA disk?

Arno

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
 
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Yousuf Khan

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?


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
 
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Arno

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.

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
 
Y

Yousuf Khan

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.

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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