Duncan Way wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:44:52 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Duncan,
>>
>>As you had said SATA drives, I assumed they were SATA not PATA.
>>
>>How do they connect - does the cable have different connectors on each 
>>end - SATA on the mobo end and 80-wire on the drive-end?
>>Or do they have an interface adapter similar to the "Z" shaped 
>>80/68-pin/50-pin SCSI adapters which effectively lengthens the drive so 
>>that it may not fit into a removable drawer insert?
>>
>>My ATA-100 removable disk drawers are also hot-swappable if using 
>>specific software under current Windoze!
>>
>These SATA (seagate 160gb) drives are NOT on/in drawers.  They are in
my tower case drive bays *replacing* two regular IDE (pata) drives that
used to be there.  The motherboard has two (2) sata connectors for its
controller and two (2) regular ide connectors used by cd drives.  The SATA
drives are connected directly to the sata controller connectors using the
proper supplied cables.
>  
>

Hi Duncan,

In that case should be no problems - just buy two of the removable units 
- the drives are fitted directly into the inserts which are then 
inserted into the containing frames which mount in the same place your 
drives are currently mounted - assuming that you have the 5.25" drive 
bays with front access in the conventional manner with a plastic pop-out 
strip hiding them from view! The SATA cables attach to the rear of the 
frame and a mini-connector attaches the diskdrive to the mating internal 
connector!

I have used removable HDD-drawers for years - and have two on every one 
of my systems - only takes two seconds with power-off to swap [reverse 
or replace] each drive - for whatever reason and no more skinned 
knuckles - currently using ATA100 [80-wire] drawers on all but one 
system which still has 40-wire [UDMA2 maximum], as that mobo predates 
the ATA66 standard.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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