Afternoon, Santa was nice to me this year and I found myself the proud new owner of a 500G WD (WD5000KS WD Caviar SE16) hard drive. It turns out, however, that the drive uses SATA and my machines use PATA. I'm not up-to-date on my hardware definitions so this is what I *believe* is the situation. Bottom line they use different connections and I can't connect the thing to any of my machines.
Could anyone that is a little more up-to-date on hardware give me some tips? Should I just go pick up a PCI SATA controller and connect it that way? If so are there any restrictions on where I can use it? ie; will the controller recognize the drive no matter the size or am I also restricted on the size the BIOS will recognize? I was actually planning on putting it in a fairly old machine that I use as a media server. Or, should I return this drive and get one that is more immediately compatible with my machine? Thanks -- Christer Edwards Ubuntu Tutorials - Ubuntu Utah http://ubuntu-tutorials.com http://ubuntu-utah.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
