[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

[kjbrosha at gmail.com (Kevin Brosha)]

You would need a converter to run a SATA drive on a regular parallel mobo. A
quick google search will show many different converters (I just checked)

On 10/12/05, Foxx (in a box) <foxxinabox@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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> i'm sorry for posting this here, but i know there are more that an
> few people on the list that are more computer literate that i am.
> i'm looking to get a new hard drive for my computer and would like to
> upgrade to SATA for future upgradability. problem is that i'm running a
> board w/o RAID and only standard PATA connections (and win 98se). are
> SATA drives backwards compatible so that i can run one in my system
> until i upgrade it or will i have to upgrade the motherboard first? my
> searches on the internet have been less than helpful. thanx.
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