Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > Matthias, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. This is very comprehensive and to the point. > Thank you again. You made my day.
Im glad you found my post informative. > I believe in time, the VIA solution will appear.Until then I will use SATA. > > It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected > to SATA adapter with some cable mod or > some thing like that. Am I correct? I don't think so. SATA is very different from PATA. It's similar to SCSI, hence the use of the SCSI subsystem in Linux. A simple cablemod won't work. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
