my box is ALL SATA. dvd and roms do exist, (and are CHEAP) have to be careful ordering stuff these days. A7N8X SATA ports only supported hard drives.
Longer cables exist for the eide. or I usually just move things around to suit. Where is the floppy header ? Bottom ? At 04:00 PM 11/8/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >The new Asus P5Q3 m/b is mounted to its' tray. Big sucker! It does appear to >be very SATA and USB centric. >Can anyone speak to "JMicron" SATA? I thought SATA was SATA............ > >Most of my CDROMS, DVDROM/Burner devices appear to be just PATA. Do SATA >devices even exist? > >I think I may now search for PATA-2-SATA converters. This m/b only has one >PATA-eide port, but I think that the case geometry will not support the normal >cable length of the standard eide cable (included) for both the hard drive and >DVDrom/Burner mounting points. I can do a temp mount of the HD to the FD >carrier for initial startup and test, but this would not be my long-term >decision. > >I recall some discussion about several versions of these converters months >back, but I can not find those msgs ATM. Recs and suggestions appreciated. >I'll need to buy a bunch! >Thanks, >Duncan -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- The trouble with a kitten is that, eventually it's a cat.
