Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA?

Date	2012-06-11 10:53 -0500
From	Grinder <grinder@no.spam.maam.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware, alt.comp.hardware
Subject	Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA?
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On 6/11/2012 9:41 AM, Jon Danniken wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 07:19 AM, John McGaw wrote:
>> On 6/11/2012 7:33 AM, no.top.post@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I read:
>>>> You  can  buy  integrated motherboards that allow a computer to use
>>>> both  SATA and IDE hard drives. However, only one of the two may be
>>>> used  at  any  given  time  and both cannot be used simultaneously.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So if they can't run on the same PC at the same time, how do you
>>> copy your old IDEs to a SATA?
>>>
>>> Are SATAs as reliable as IDE?
>>>
>>> == TIA
>>>
>>
>> In the olden days when SATA was bleeding edge technology a few
>> motherboards had kludged BIOSs which limited what could be done with
>> mixed IDE and SATA. Thankfully, this was a long time ago and no recent
>> system has had such problem. In fact, it seems that IDE connectors have
>> pretty much disappeared from what I've seen from the big makers and
>> modern chipsets.  For a while there seemed to be a reduction to a single
>> IDE connector, supposedly for connecting legacy optical drives. Does
>> anybody actually still include them?
>>
>
>
> I certainly appreciate the IDE port on my Gigabyte  mainboard, as it
> affords me the ability to connect a legacy device to my machine.
>
> I feel the same about the FDD port, although I must admit I haven't used
> it in years.
>
> Sometimes I feel bad for the demise of the floppy, they were king in
> their day.

Agreed.  And I still say, in the face of all evidence, that my car has 
better acceleration when I have my buggy whip in hand.

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HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-06-11 11:33 +0000
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-06-11 12:45 +0100
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? terryc <newsninespam-spam@woa.com.au> - 2012-06-11 21:54 +1000
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-06-11 08:44 -0400
    Re (2): HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-06-14 06:45 +0000
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2012-06-11 10:19 -0400
    Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com> - 2012-06-11 07:41 -0700
      Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Grinder <grinder@no.spam.maam.com> - 2012-06-11 10:53 -0500
      Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-11 17:33 +0000
      Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2012-06-13 10:51 +0300
    Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2012-06-13 10:51 +0300
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> - 2012-06-12 00:35 -0700
    Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-06-12 04:28 -0400
  Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-06-12 10:16 -0600
    Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-06-13 03:56 +0000
    Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA? Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2012-07-06 05:34 +0000

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