07-01-15 11:41 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about SCSI Adapter Startup

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 30 Jun 15 21:11, you wrote to me:
Howdy! Mark,
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 ml>> my PATA and SATA systems appear to show all connections when
 ml>> booting up... only those with drives attached get a name or ID
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 EV> Long time ago I thought the HDD in this XP box was IDE because I would
 EV> see a line on the screen when I turned the box On that said something
 EV> about checking IDE Drives.

 EV> A moment after that line shows up I see several lines flash on the
 EV> screen only for a instant and then the SCSI Adapter gets initialized.

 EV> It was a long time before I learned that those lines I saw for only a
 EV> moment was where the pc was reporting what SATA connections it saw.

 ml> PATA (old style) and SATA (new style) are both IDE... IDE

I knew the P meant Parallel and the S meant Serial.
I didn't know both xATA HDD's were IDE.  Thanks!

I've always thought a Parallel connection was the way to go.
I'm thinking about back in the early days Printers were RS-232 Serial,
but later most all Printers used a Centronix Parallel connector.
Until USB came along.

SATA Hard Drives, I guess, must be faster than PATA Hard Drives?
Even though the signal flow is Serial, which I always thought was
slower because of Parallel Printers becoming more popular to buyers.
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 EV> P.S. I was looking around Waldo's Place BBS a few days ago and learned
 EV> that the W in wkitty meant 'White'.

 ml> actually, the name of the bbs has the first name in it...
 ml> granted, the avatar is a white cat on a black background but
 ml> the bbs is named for the moniker ;)

 ml> )\/(ark

So Your initials are WML?

 ml> ... NAK NAK, "Who's There?" #{at}#^#$%#(#{at}^ NO CARRIER

BELL (CTRL-G) would work better than a NAK wouldn't it?
I'm thinking NAK is the NUL $00 ASCII Character.

Was I close enuf?


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