Ray Davison wrote:

> 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.

Both PATA and SATA are IDE. Just one is a parrallel form, the other 
serial, so the Bios is correct to refer to them all as 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).
> 

   Well you have a motherboard with both interfaces, so you can chose, 
but you will see in a while all new (and larger) drives will come only 
as SATA not PATA.

> 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.

Me too !

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

There are SATA cards to add into non-SATA systems to use the new drives, 
but not as far as I know, any options the other way around.

Cheers/2

Ed.





 
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