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Is there an IDE to ATA adaptor?
I have an 120GB EIDE hard drive that i want to put inside a new Dell
8400 machine, but to my surprise the machine use ATA hard disk, there's only 1 IDE bus with DVD drive on it (which I don't like to add the hard disk since I have another CD-RW that I put on it). So the question is, is there an IDE-ATA (cable) adaptor that I can buy so I can put the 120GB EIDE drive on that ATA bus? thanks |
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EDIE or ATA (Parallel ATA), you are really talking about the same thing.
They both use the same 40 pin/40 wire(or 80 wire) ribbon cable. EIDE was the old interface name, now it's called ATA You can take a 4 year old 10GB EIDE hard drive and plug it into the newest ATA controller and it will work fine. Each ATA controller can have two ATA devices hooked up to it. (Hard drive, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.) You can add a PCI ATA controller to you computer if you have run out of connectors Now SATA (Serial ATA) is a total different connector (7 pin ?) Which is in the process of replacing ATA. wrote in message oups.com... I have an 120GB EIDE hard drive that i want to put inside a new Dell 8400 machine, but to my surprise the machine use ATA hard disk, there's only 1 IDE bus with DVD drive on it (which I don't like to add the hard disk since I have another CD-RW that I put on it). So the question is, is there an IDE-ATA (cable) adaptor that I can buy so I can put the 120GB EIDE drive on that ATA bus? thanks |
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