On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:26:23 -0400, you wrote: Short note PATA is the acronym for the aging standard IDE Hdd connector which is a parallel device so when they found that serial is faster they called it SATA for Serial Attached whatever........
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "grt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:13 PM >Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!! SATA HD - how long should windows >inspect --------------? > > >> >> I spent a frustrating 4 hours last week with a machine I assembled >> last week with this very problem. >> >> Abit mobo had an NForce 4 chipset. Hard drive was Maxtor SATA. >> Mobo mapped the SATA as an IDE device and could install without a >> driver diskette (which surprised me). >> > >I may by showing my ignorance here as I have not even done research to learn >what PATA is. I can say this about Seagate SATA (now they claim the drives I >am buying are SATA II -- Wow! Zoom! Zoom!) is plug and go! I just hook the >drive to my Asus P4P800 SE or Asus P5GD2-X motherboard and set the channel I >hook to for Auto in the BIOS and it is as simple as IDE. I do lots of data >copying outside of the Windows environment using Ghost. It does not matter >what the source or target drive is, IDE, SATA or External USB, I get the job >done and I do not need no Winders' as Wayne calls that OS. > >While y'all diligent students who invest more time in R&D (maybe I invest >too much time in R&R) are flying high in Windows, I, the mole, am making >great strides without Windows. My clones of XP Windows loads in the NTFS >format work well when I overwrite a messed up C Drive with it or copy it to >a new replacement hard drive. > >I bragged all these years about copying at warp speed with Ghost and without >Windows, but now Acronis True Image is impressing me. I am getting even >faster rates copying in Windows from a SATA hard drive to a USB 2.0 External >hard drive, not a straight copy, but copying to an image. > >When it comes to mixing SATA, IDE and USB 2.0 hard drives, are we having >fun, yet? I know I am! I may get lost up there in Windows, but let me be the >mole and I am in home territory. What works below Windows, usually works for >me in Windows. For may problems I test outside of Windows. I know it has to >work there for it to work in Windows. One exception. I have seen situations >where Windows XP would detect a hard drive that could not be detected >outside of Windows. Those seem to be rare. > >Chuck Sir Hugh of Bognor -- Remember. You may honestly believe that you understood everything you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't exactly what I said. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
