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OT:SATA drive or PATA drive on converter
The external drive would allow me to access some larger files (like video files) on both my laptop and desktop while away from my home network. The laptop has a 4 pin firewire cable (& USB 1.1). But all firewire/USB enclosure only accepts IDE drive; not SATA drives. A SATA external enclosure requires additional

SATA Drives
Anyone try loading Suse 9.0 on a ASUS p4p800 with SATA drives? When we try it with the SATA drives attached the install fails (Even though the main-boot disk will be a regular UIDE ATA133 drive...), doesn't get anywhere, for both auto and manual install ... it's like it vapor locks when it sniffs the controller.

Which SATA drive to go with my AI7?
Jeff Gaines jgaines_new...@yahoo.co.uk uk comp misc On 23/09/2006 in message <4515a186$0$19701$88260...@free.teranews.com> Andy wrote: I have a PC with 2 SATA Drives configured as RAID and was toying with the idea amongst other things is re-formatting the drives and loading Windows XP Home Edition again from the CD

SATA drive on SCSI bus-more questions about SAS
From that link the "Boot Sequence" does NOT list the SATA controller...just IDE and USB. This is what I need to call back Dell tech support. Since you had them on the phone, what did they say on how to boot from a SATA drive? They said "I don't know why there is no SATA listed in the BIOS.

SATA Drives Vs Parallel
hdFatBoy2003 unkn...@unknown.com microsoft public windowsxp general Glen, Intel motherboards/Bios have a small problem with SATA drives in that they do not wait long enough for the drive to spin up and tell they're specs. After the PC initially tries to boot quickly do a warm re-boot, (ctrl-alt-delete).

SATA Hard Drive Installation
I have an Asus K8N mobo, and am having the exact same problem (blank screen with flashing cursor after reboot) after installing Vista Ultimate OEM onto a maxtor 200gig SATA drive. (clean install from the DVD, only other drive attached is the dvd rom from which I am installing) This is the first time I've bothered

SATA Drives and Heat
Jeff Ingram wrote: Hello, What should one anticipate in terms of performance if I added a Promise SATA controller card and a SATA drive in an Dimension 4500? The 4500 doesn't have SATA ports on the motherboard (2.8ghz P4 system is 3 years old this month), hence the need for the SATA controller.

Is there such a thing as Enterprise Class SATA drives
(This was before SATA drives were commonly available, and so the drives are actually regular old-fashioned parallel ATA drives, with an extra adapter attached to convert to SATA; Of course, with drives that are actually SATA-only, this isn't an option. But if you have both connectors on the drives, it would be.

How do I install an SATA Drive on a 8INXP ? Please Help !
Yes SATA and IDE drives can be mixed with each other. SATA is in theory faster but in real life it isn't much faster due to the fact that physical limitations hold the drive back. Unless you are getting 10000 rpm drives from Western Digital, then you will get a speed boost. However it could slow the system down as

Vista Ultimate x86 or x64 will not install to SATA drives - ok to
I was actually using SUSE when I was trying to install Linux on my SATA drive and the brand new copy I bought from CompUSA which is version 8.2 does not support SATA drives. Mandrake does, I am installing it as we speak. Thanks, Roger dusan wrote: hi what ver bios ? look in a bios boot option and set it and all

SATA and IDE drive identification
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:12:52 GMT, "Ken Morris" <gate2...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: So from what I gather from all so far that have replied is that SATA is so new and some scsi or ide drives running at 10000 rpm are much faster than the SATA drives, of course unless you buy a 10000 RPM SATA drive which I have not seen

Is SATA currently unreliable?
When I upgraded my system I had a 120g Western Digital HD (7200RPM) so I did not put in a new drive. I'm doing more and more video editing and would like to add a second hard drive. I know I can buy the exact same drive and add it. But could I get a 120g SATA drive and have the two of them co-exist?

probs with win xp and sata hd
My mobo has SATA and PATA connectors. I have NO SATA drives, just 2 PATAs plus a single SCSI drive connected to an Adaptec SCSI host adapter. The SCSI drive is normally my boot device. I read a lot on this ng & elsewhere about having to load the xp drivers for SATA from a floppy by hitting F6 etc etc.. but if there

sata hard drives v 7200 8 meg buffer ide
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: I don't have any experience with the Hitachi 1TB SATA drives, but I know an outfit that was trying out the Seagate 1TB drives and had 8 out of 12 fail their burn-in (a 3 day torture test) My luck with consumer SATA drives has been incredibly dismal,

Help! What did my new SATA drive do to XP?
Andrew E. eckric...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware "SATA drives updated to latest version" ,this has nothing to do with running a SATA drive(s),you need to enable the SATA controller so the drive can be active.Download the software/drivers from via for the controller on the board, R.clicking it in

Installing Windows XP on RAID SATA Disk Drives
BTW, I also bought a 120 Gig WD SATA hard drive and Kingwin SATA Mobile Rack. I might still buy the USB2Dock, but it wants internal USB2 connections, I can put a few boot OSes on my 120 Gig WD SATA drive Yes, thats generally the best way to do multiple OSs. that is housed in a removable SATA drive bay.

SATA Boot drive and IDE data drives?
BAR B...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I beg to differ with Andrew, however on the Gigabyte based systems that I have used, also with a single SATA drive it was necessary for a driver file. In those that I have configured, one required to setup the SATA / RAID in BIOS,

Seagate SATA 120GB - should I be concerned?
This problem appears to coincide roughly with the addition of another SATA hard drive in the case. My current computer configuration is: 120 GB SATA hard drive in removeable bay 60 GB PATA hard drive internally mounted 250 GB SATA hard drive internally mounted CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive PATA Docking drive floppy

Humbling! And one item just plain dumb! :-(
Alan Beagley abeag...@optonline.net comp os os2 setup storage Seagate's SATA Product Manager was quoted as saying that SATA does not compete with SCSI and is not intended to. Seagate's SATA drives have only a one-year warranty, whereas their SCSI drives have a five-year warranty (although some places sell them with

Adding SATA drive to 8KNXP
2) What's the big deal about SATA? Higher data transfer rates, easier to provide for more than 4 disk drives in a PC. 2a) Is it that 2 SATA drives can be used to parallel-record files, so I don't need backups, ie the 2nd one serves as a redundant drive? Is this doable on a WinXP-pro PC? I think what you are talking