FORC5,
You old devil! ROTFLMAO!............ :)
You know me well..........
Duncan
At 14:20 11/10/2008 -0700, you wrote:
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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