Questions tagged [pata]
PATA (Parallel ATA) is better known as IDE. IDE/PATA is the predecessor to SATA in terms of storage device controllers.
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5 x 3GB drives and 4 x 1500GB drive best raid setup?
I am building a file server my plan is the have the Operating system on one raid partition and the data storage on another partition.
I currently have 5 x 3GB IDE drives that i would like to put the ...
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problems mounting an external IDE drive via USB in ubuntu
I am having a problem connecting a specific IDE drive to my linux box. It's an old drive which I just want to get about 3 GB of files off of.
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I am trying to connect a 200GB IDE Maxtor Drive, ...
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Proper way to connect SATA and IDE Hard drives together?
I have an old IDE hard drive that has a broken Windows install on it. It just won't boot up, and I've tried a variety of solutions. That's fine, I really just need a few files on the hard drive.
I ...
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Western Digital External 2.5 disk use SATA or PATA?
I would like to know if an external disk I have, which HD Tune tells me is a WD800BEVS from Western Digital is SATA or PATA?
I would like to be sure it is SATA before removing it from the box (and ...
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How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode?
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How to use 3-drive IDE cable?
I saw a 3-drive IDE cable at Monoprice but I've never seen this before. How would you set the jumpers on the drives and their positions to use this cable?
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Difference between IDE and SATA DVD writers
What is the difference between IDE and SATA type DVD writers? My motherboard supports both. Which one do you recommend?
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Hard drives (SATA/ATA) corrupting
2 years ago I bought relatives a new computer for christmas and installed Ubuntu on it. Ever since then it has been experiencing problems with the hard drives. The hard drive supplied with the machine ...
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Using an ATA-100 Hard Drive with a Thermaltake BlacX External Hard Drive Dock
Is it possible for a Thermaltake BlacX HDD Dock to connect to and recognize an ATA-100 Hard Drive? I know that the specifications for the BlacX say that it only supports SATA & SATAII, but I was ...
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Unable to make my bios see my sata hdd
I know there are many question about that, but I tried everything and I'm still not able to make my bios see my sata2 hdd.
I've got a QDI motherbord with no sata port; only 2 ide ports.
I had an old ...
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Problem with running sata hdd with pata hdd
There's a problem when I try to connect my pata hdd(slave) with the sata hdd(primary). The computer sometimes detects the drive and sometimes not. How can I fix this problem?
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Can a USB/IDE/SATA adapter be flaky?
I use USB/IDE/SATA converters a lot and on the two that I have now, I sometimes get errors copying files to drives.
It only happens when I'm copying big files to the drive (big can mean as little as ...
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Solid state drive on old laptop with Windows XP
I have an old laptop that has a 30 GB HDD (IDE 2.5") and I thought of giving it a little boost by replacing the HDD for a SSD.
Would there be any compatibility problems if do that ?
Does Windows XP ...
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The name of this interface?
What's the name of that black connector from MacBook 2.1?
edit: The black connector is used to connect optical drive. I've read on late Macs, it's a SATA interface, which someone replace the optical ...
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Are USB hard drive sizes limited by motherboard hard drive controller?
I'm looking to put an expansion EIDE controller in my dad's desktop so it can handle a new 500 GB drive (evidently the motherboard EIDE controller has the 137 GB limit). He got a 500 GB USB hard drive ...
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IDE/PATA high-speed hard drive dock
I frequently need to access bare drives for backups and need a quick, high-speed way to deal with them.
There are a multitude of SATA hard drive docks (for example), but I have a lot of IDE/PATA (...
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Do I get any performance boost with an IDE to SATA adapter?
I picked up a barebones PC kit the other day so that I could get a speed boost and still use my old hard drives/DVD drives, etc.
I currently have two IDE drives and unfortunately the new motherboard ...
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How do I identify pin 1 on a ribbon cable connector?
I have a ribbon cable that is not labeled and does not have a notch to prevent it from being installed backwards. How can I identify which pin is #1 on the connector?
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Why should I choose (or not) AHCI over IDE in my PC's BIOS settings?
I've noticed in the BIOS settings of the newer PCs I own that I can configure the drive controller work either in AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode, or else in IDE mode.
I'm suspecting ...
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How can I use an old PATA hard disk drive on my newer SATA-only computer?
I've got some old hard drives I'd like to connect to my new computer to quickly transfer gigs and gigs of data from the old drives to my nice large new drives. The old drives are PATA/IDE/ATA and the ...
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