ATA is just a standard. PATA = IDE, yes there's still plenty of IDE drives. SATA comes in a few flavors just as PATA does. SATA I & II, drives with TCQ, NCQ and no CQ.
Could be a bad controller on your motherboard as well. If one drives works fine on one port use those cables and that port to test the other drive. Powermax is available in ISO format on Maxtor's site and does support SATA drive *BUT* not on certain Via and Nforce chipsets. Fry's is only good if you know exactly what you want and have no expectations of returning there any time soon. With that in mind, I've made plenty of purchases there. Usually without the help of a sales goon. (They're only good for fetching parts anyway). I always get a laugh out of what sales people tell customers there and what those customers assume. I try my hardest to not help too many people when I'm there. That be all, Mr O. --- LinuxRocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i tried it, but some of the utilities didnt work at all, > it claims > to only work with ata drives (does this mean not sata? what > about uata? > do they even selll ata drives?) > Anyway... it didnt seem to help any with my sata drives. (i > did try > to write zeros, with a utility on there, and it just hangs) > > Jamie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
