On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Jim Dykes wrote:
I know nothing about ATA, PATA, etc. Is there anything special about
this drive that it might not work in the average computer....say like an
out of the box eMachine?
SATA stands for Serial ATA while the PATA or just ATA is the
old common Parallel ATA. The controller involved is completely
different between the SATA and the PATA. Depending on the age
of the emachine it may or may not have the SATA controller. It
will have a PATA though.
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