make sure you have a toast tonight for the Blue Smoke God/Demon :-D fp At 01:33 PM 11/10/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >Greg/Scott, >Thanks for the JMicron answers. I'm smarter now. Searching pata/sata >converters this afternoon. >If the ram arrives today, I may have trons moving on the new toy tonight. >First new machine platform in ~6yrs. >Best, >Duncan > >At 14:45 11/10/2008 -0500, you wrote: >>Jmicron is just the SATA port chipset name--they're still normal SATA >>(sometimes they have the option for RAID, etc, builtin) >> >>A lot of motherboards nowadays seem to be intel chipset (called ICH) >>and to include several intel chipset SATA ports (ICH), and then to add >>a few more SATA ports they add an embedded jmicron controller. You can >>use them all. >> >>Scott >> >>On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:18 PM, DHSinclair wrote: >> >>>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. >>>> >>>>DHSinclair wrote: >>>>>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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