Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> I would expect channel 2 and channel 3 to be the SATA connections and 
> the others to be the PATA connections, however your motherboard manual 
> will tell you.

The manual did not help, that is why I am here.  I also assumed the 
last two channels are SATA, but am confused as to why the BIOS wold 
call them IDE.
> 
> The industry is changing to SATA and it is already becoming difficult to 
> buy PATA drives 

I have not found that to be the case.  I just got another 200G for $50 
after the lottery (rebate).

> so if you are building a new system

Actually, I am putting together two new systems right now.  However, I 
don't generally build a complete sys, I just replace pieces with 
whatever I got a deal on this week.  I am a real sucker for last weeks 
hot stuff that is now cheap.

> I would recommend 
> you to go for SATA rather than PATA, once you have check the SATA 
> controller is supported by the latest Danis drivers. Silicon Image 
> appears to be the most common SATA controller and I have that working 
> without problems using the latest Danis drivers.

I currently have about 20 IDE drives.  I assume there is no way to 
connect an IDE drive to a SATA port, true?

Ray


 
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