[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

[blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)]

you can get adapter plugs (small board) that let you connect sata to  
the ide channel

sata pci controllers are pretty cheap, though.


blake/

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On Oct 12, 2005, at 9:34 , Foxx (in a box) wrote:

>   i'm sorry for posting this here, but i know there are more that  
> an few people on the list that are more computer literate that i am.
>   i'm looking to get a new hard drive for my computer and would  
> like to upgrade to SATA for future upgradability. problem is that  
> i'm running a board w/o RAID and only standard PATA connections  
> (and win 98se). are SATA drives backwards compatible so that i can  
> run one in my system until i upgrade it or will i have to upgrade  
> the motherboard first? my searches on the internet have been less  
> than helpful. thanx.
>
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