On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at a motherboard update and have apparently left it too
> long: it's hard to find new MBs that have PATA connectors (there are a
> few, but choice is pretty limited). The hard drives for this machine
> are SATA, but the optica
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:12:04 +
Ian Malone wrote:
> (Actually, given how cheap new ones are I wonder if they're better
> quality anyway.)
New ones almost certainly will handle higher speed media and
write faster (which would only matter if you write a lot of
stuff, mind you :-).
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Hi,
I'm looking at a motherboard update and have apparently left it too
long: it's hard to find new MBs that have PATA connectors (there are a
few, but choice is pretty limited). The hard drives for this machine
are SATA, but the optical drives are PATA. There are a few PATA to
SATA converters whi