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

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Bruce Chastain wrote:

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Paul:
Well, I did say "near death". Admittedly it was a somewhat facetious
remark but PATA's days *are* numbered. Note the plethora of recent
motherboards being produced with only a single IDE connector and
virtually every board is now SATA-capable.

Note that the newer Intel P965 chipset doesn't have support for IDE/PATA.

It's important to note that SATA is also IDE, which is why what everybody
had been calling IDE got retconned into being named PATA.

It is somewhat surprising that SATA-interfaced optical drives still
comprise only a tiny fraction of that market. That should change in the
months ahead I would think.

I agree. I have no doubt that PATA will be dropped just as soon as SATA
optical drives become more common. Those are the last holdouts.

I thought laptop drives were....



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