Ralph P. Cohen wrote:
 
> On 08/01/2005 6:16:16 PM -0400 Felix Miata  wrote:

> > Yet another is his motherboard may be old, providing only ATA33 or worse
> > speed for ATAPI devices.
 
> Daniel mentioned earlier that he purchased a new motherboard so it's
> probably at least ATA100 although I doubt it would make much difference
> for a CD.

CD, no; DVD-RW, quite possibly. DVD burners with doze are generally
recommended to have CPU MHz of 800 or better. They can put a lot of
activity on the bus(es).
 
> > One he doesn't have but many eventually will is the shift from PATA to
> > SATA, which causes at least one OS to make the one device type
> > masquerade as another type (SATA -> SCSI), confusing configuration and
> > users in the process.
 
> I personally haven't found mixing SCSI and PATA and SATA problematic.

That problem so far is generally reserved for Linux users.

> Although I place my hard drives on SCSI or SATA buses, I like to hang a
> CD on the PATA bus for the same reason I still install a floppy drive -
> to allow the system to be booted without any drivers or added hardware.
 
Motherboards probably will stop having PATA before too long. The one I'm
using to type this supports only 2 PATA devices on one channel (ICH6),
though it supports 4 SATA plus 4 more HD only PATA on separate ITE RAID.
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