I guess one of my big problems is having those IDE drives boot up like they should. 
 Since there are so many tiny pins, manytimes my bios reports a problem when actually 
it is something like a "loose fit" with the connector. This gets aggrevating. SATA 
does not seem to have the same "connector problem"  since its connector is more like 
a regular plug rather than 72 or so tiny pins all fitting into a socket with 72 or 
so tiny holes.  Am I right about SATA drives on this point?

Also is there a problem with running SATA and IDE together on the same computer?







On Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 5:53 pm, Jim McDonald wrote:

>I have a Pent 4 Abit SG-71 board.  I have IDE hard drives but I want to use a SATA 

>hd because it might be faster. I will need some kind of adapter to use SATA on this 

>board.  I have about 1 GB ram and I can upgrade that to 2GB.  I really don't want 

>to upgrade to a duel core board that has SATA connections because I don't use it 

>for high graphics or gaming and mainly use word processing and data type software 

>for most of my work.  What do you recommend?  

>Jim 

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