At 16:08 11/08/2008 -0700, you wrote:
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.
Ooh! That is scary. Do you mean that SATA dvd and cdroms exist? I have been
in the toolies to long!
Longer cables exist for the eide. or I usually just move things around to
suit.
Yes, I have bought and tested these 'longer' cables. Had problems with each
one I tried.
Where is the floppy header ? Bottom ?
Weird place. It is on the bottom edge of the m/b ~2 inches from the rear of
the tray. Odd, but it does seem to now be right on the whole PCI/PCIe buss.
Best,
Duncan
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
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