I just bought a ASUS MAXIMUMS motherboard and in the manual it
specifically says do not use internal ports as external. Why... is
there something different about an external port?
At 11:41 AM 11/10/2008, you wrote:
1. PATA to SATA adapters are cheap. I picked up 10 of them recently for $4
each off ebay. I'm re-using a bunch (9) of old PATA WD 250GB drives in a
freenas/openfiler box as a project.
2. JMicron is just a name of a company that makes controller ICs. Think of
them like Silicon Image, Promise, etc. That board has a JMicron controller
to provide 2 more onboard ports than the 6 SATA ports provided by the Intel
southbridge ICH. Use the other ones first, but don't be afraid to use the JM
ports too.
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> Yes j.,
> That is why I asked the question again. Plan is to be completely scsi-
> free
> within the next 90 days (except for my server). Do plan to do more
> research on these converters.
>
> But, again, does anyone know anything about "JMicron SATA?" I have two
> of
> these ports; one is orange, the other is white. The UM does not say
> much. The other 6 SATA plugs are the normal brick-read color. Plan to
> use
> these as I move from pata to sata.
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
> At 22:52 11/09/2008 -0800, you wrote:
> >Converters $35-65 no matter if it's USB2-PATA, FW-PATA, SATA-PATA.
> >Translation, time to dump everything but the PATA DVD/CD ROM's in
> favor if
> >SATA.
> >
