Re: Transferring to a new computer. Will this work?

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"Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bruce:
I find it incomprehensible that a current motherboard would be designed in
such a way that the user would need to install an auxiliary driver for a
common industry-standard CD-DVD optical drive in order for that device to
be recognized by the system. While I can't recall working specifically
with the ASUS P5B motherboard, I've worked with scores of different ASUS
boards and have never encountered the situation described by the source
you quoted. I'm not aware of any restriction re the Intel P965 Express
chipset along the lines mentioned by the review. If you (or anyone coming
upon this thread) can confirm the reviewer's comments I would appreciate
hearing about it.
Anna

I took it to be an early sign that PATA is dead. Intel removed PATA support
from their P965 chipset so ASUS added it back with JMicron chip, which
unfortunately requires a special driver. I'd guess that working with PATA
is going get harder and harder over the next few years.

The review spelled out the problems of having a non-standard IDE
hardware/driver. A real catch-22 as far as installing the IDE drivers.

Anyway, all that drove me to think about using an external USB harddrive
rather than installing the old drive internally in the new computer.

Bruce.


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