EV>09-02-13 15:19 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Backup software

EV> TW> {at}MSGID: 
EV> EV> ml> IDE, ATA, ATAPI are all pretty much synonymous... IDE came
EV> EV> ml> about when the HD controller card was removed from the slot and
EV> EV> ml> placed on the HD... the card used in the slots was then just an
EV> EV> ml> interface card... since then, there is no interface card in a
EV> EV> ml> slot as they are now built directly onto the motherboards and
EV> EV> ml> the cables connected to them there...

EV> TW> the KEY is the above statement. Teh Three teram are basiclly
EV> TW> the same thing and are used almost universaly interchangable.
EV> TW> In fact the MB, 2007 era ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS, I just replaced
EV> TW> with my all SATA Drives MB even called the HD cables IDE and
EV> TW> labeled the connectior on the Mother Board IDE

EV>Tom,

EV>I noticed that in the BIOS of my HP a1430n XP computer that
EV>I got in 2006 that they are called IDE but the MB connectors
EV>and the 250MB HDD are SATA.

Fro Win XP that is the recomended set up. For Vista and Win 7 using the
ACHI settting is recomended so the SATA Drive can use NCQ

NCQ
Web definitions

    Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is a technology designed to increase
    performance of SATA hard disks under certain conditions by allowing
    the individual hard disk to internally optimize the order in which
    received read and write commands are executed. ....


EV>And then there is the CD-ROM in a X-BOX MS calls a Disk Drive.

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