Amos, It's clearly not a real motherboard ;-)
Seriously, there really isn't any need for IDE/PATA any more. However all boards I have seen seem to sport at least one of them, I think mainly because CD/DVD drives seemed to be problematic with SATA (particularly booting). Anyway assuming that is sorted with a modern BIOS and OS then IDE can go the way of floppies - but wait, why on earth does the Dell motherboard need a floppy interface!! (I am pretty sure HP just doesn't ship anything with them anymore). Regards, Martin [email protected] On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]>wrote: > 2008/12/30 jam <[email protected]>: > > I'm fascinated in the extreem, what sort of motherboard is there in your > > desktop ? > > James > > It's a Dell Dimention E520 bought in end-of-financial year sale. To > try to satisfy your curiosity I attach a link to an image of the mobo > here: http://imagebin.ca/view/Irf9scl2.html > > The closest thing to look to like an IDE connector is at the centre > near the bottom, half hidden by the longer extension card. The label > on the mobo next to it says "Floppy". > > I dug up its specifications from here: > http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dimE520/en/SM_EN/specs.htm > > Under "drives"->"Available Devices" it reads: "Serial ATA drives (4), > floppy drive, USB memory devices, CD/DVD drive, and Media Card > Reader". The CD-ROM is SATA too (from visual inspection). > > Is anyone else here feels the same as Jam that it's unlikely that I > have a mobo without an old-style parallel ATA controller? > > Cheers, > > --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
