30 Jun 15 21:11, you wrote to me:

 EV>> This is an old message I'm using to write this reply to You.

 ml>> i remember it...

 EV> Did remembering it cause You to get nightmares?

hahaha... nah...

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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
 ml>> printed beside them... the others may say something about "not
 ml>> connected" or "not ready"... really nothing to
be concerned
 ml>> with as far as i can see ;)

 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.

PATA (old style) and SATA (new style) are both IDE... IDE stands for
Integrated Device Electronics which simply means that instead of having a
separate controller card taking a slot like we had with MFM and RLL drives,
the controller card is built on the HD combining the HD's interface board
and the controller card into one... then a cable goes from the drive to
connect to an interface card in a slot... now days that interface card is
built onto the motherboard which frees up a slot... the difference between
PATA and SATA is that PATA is parallel and transfers the bits making the
bytes of data all at the same time... SATA is serial and streams the bits
in a single line... parallel is faster but takes more work to happen...
serial is easier since the stream of bytes don't need to be split into
channels... especially so since the data is read in serial fashion from the
drive platters anyway...

 EV> Thanks Again!

 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'.

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

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