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Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>?

From Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>?
Date 2012-05-22 05:41 +0000
Message-ID <a20n84F6irU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <jp6hcg$f38$1@dont-email.me> <jp8acd$e2g$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2012-05-19, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <jp6hcg$f38$1@dont-email.me>, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote: 
>
>> On 05/18/2012 12:28 PM, no.top.post@gmail.com wrote:
>> > I've been using IDE hard-disks since the 90s.
>> > Now this netbook shows /dev/sda1,2,3,4.
>> > I've read that these new-ones are better&  cheaper.
>> > But the value in not in the hardware. it's in the contents,
>> > and we must keep our valuable data - with continuity.
>> >
>> > So can you have a BIG new-disk and say-2 IDEs on the
>> > same old/2005 PC?
>> >
>> > == TIA
>> >
>> 
>> 	What hardware might you have already?
>> 	Same/old 2005 PC defines no important parameters
>> of the machine aside from age.
>> 
> All the PCs that I have access to [except a netbook, which I don't
> intend to open up] have 2   40-pin sockets for master/slave IDE
> drive cables.
>
> Can such MOBOs accomodate the new type; perhaps with a
><plug in>?
> I can't believe that when the new drives came out, users had
> to just discard their existing PCs.
>
There was a transistion period of years on the MB side of things. They had a
single PATA socket.

The SATA drives did not cause all PATA drives to vanish over night.

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HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-18 19:28 +0000
  Re: HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-05-18 15:10 -0700
    Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-05-19 08:08 -0700
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-05-19 11:50 -0400
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-20 21:22 +0000
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2012-05-22 05:41 +0000
  Re: HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? terryc <newsninespam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2012-05-21 11:01 +1000
  Re: HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? Danno <WhoaBaby@MySecretPlace.org> - 2012-05-20 22:19 -0600
  Re: HOW2 transition from IDE to <new ones>? john connolly <wconn@kc.rr.com> - 2012-05-22 21:03 +0000

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