Hi Martin, I just opened my desktop and indeed there are no PATA controllers there. That's why I mentioned that it is 18 months old.
I use the term "PATA" for exactly the reason you mentioned - to distinguish from "SATA". Thanks, and apologies for top-posting due to limitations of my current email client. Amos On 12/30/08, Martin Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Amos, > > It is pretty unlikely that you won't have PATA controllers in your desktop - > they will probably be called IDE. (PATA is a term not used often - usually > only when people wish to distinguish the drives from SATA) > > Martin > > Regards, Martin > > [email protected] > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Amos Shapira > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My wife asked me to re-install her Windows partition and in the >> process both PATA drives on her desktop (including both Windows and >> Ubunutu) started to give weird errors and can't be accessed any more. >> >> I tried using sysrescuecd 1.0 and the ubuntu cd in rescue mode but all >> give similar errors, on both drives. >> >> Since it seems highly unlikely to me that both drives became bad at >> exactly the same time (they have a few years difference in their age, >> different make, model and size) I suspect that the problem is with the >> motherboard or ATA controller. >> >> My own desktop is about 18 months old and I don't see mention of PATA >> controllers in its lshw or lspci output. >> >> Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA->usb box >> to allow me to access the disks and salvage the data from them? >> >> (and before anyone tells me again - we bought a USB drive this weekend >> together with a Windows Vista laptop and will start following Marry's >> advise to back things up). >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Amos >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
