What's wrong with this?

Franc Zabkar

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Oct 19, 2009, 2:01:57 AM10/19/09

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Here is a screenshot out of an Asus motherboard manual (page 59):
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SATA1_ST320413A.jpg

Something seems wrong about it ...

Asus M2N-X manual:
http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2N-X/e3147_m2n-x.pdf

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Arno

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Oct 19, 2009, 2:44:55 AM10/19/09

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Franc Zabkar <fza...@iinternode.on.net> wrote:
> Here is a screenshot out of an Asus motherboard manual (page 59):
> http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SATA1_ST320413A.jpg

> Something seems wrong about it ...

> Asus M2N-X manual:
> http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2N-X/e3147_m2n-x.pdf

Hmm. That they are using a very old ATA disk?

Arno

Ian D

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Oct 19, 2009, 11:29:14 AM10/19/09

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"Franc Zabkar" <fza...@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
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The manual is dated 2007, but the BIOS screenshot is of a 2002
BIOS. No wonder it's only a 20GB drive that's listed.

Franc Zabkar

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Oct 20, 2009, 4:21:16 PM10/20/09

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On 19 Oct 2009 06:44:55 GMT, Arno <m...@privacy.net> put finger to
keyboard and composed:

It's a parallel ATA drive connected to a SATA port. I know it can be
done using SATA-PATA interface cards, but why?

Yousuf Khan

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Oct 27, 2009, 12:18:19 PM10/27/09

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Franc Zabkar wrote:
> It's a parallel ATA drive connected to a SATA port. I know it can be
> done using SATA-PATA interface cards, but why?

I'm using those devices here myself, on a couple of old 200GB and 300GB
IDE drives, which I've converted to SATA. The main reason for doing that
is because there is a dearth of IDE connections these days with newer
motherboards. They supply maybe just one IDE port for a couple of
master/slave optical drives, these days.

Yousuf Khan

Arno

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Oct 27, 2009, 1:15:24 PM10/27/09

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I have basically phased out IDE for normal operation, but I still
have 5 or so IDE drives that I use for experiments and today
they are typically attached to SATA via converters I bought during
the transition phase.

Arno
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Yousuf Khan

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Oct 27, 2009, 8:51:50 PM10/27/09

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Arno wrote:
> Yousuf Khan <bbb...@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Franc Zabkar wrote:
>>> It's a parallel ATA drive connected to a SATA port. I know it can be
>>> done using SATA-PATA interface cards, but why?
>
>> I'm using those devices here myself, on a couple of old 200GB and 300GB
>> IDE drives, which I've converted to SATA. The main reason for doing that
>> is because there is a dearth of IDE connections these days with newer
>> motherboards. They supply maybe just one IDE port for a couple of
>> master/slave optical drives, these days.
>
> I have basically phased out IDE for normal operation, but I still
> have 5 or so IDE drives that I use for experiments and today
> they are typically attached to SATA via converters I bought during
> the transition phase.

I've also mentioned that miraculously somehow when using these IDE
drives in SATA form, one of the drive's spin retry count problem went away.

Yousuf Khan

Arno

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Oct 27, 2009, 11:33:49 PM10/27/09

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> Yousuf Khan

Black Magic! ;-)