John Hermanson wrote
>
> My computer has eide drives, If I put in a sata drive, will that plug
> directly into the motherboard or is there some kind of sata adapter
> board involved?
I am seriously running out of space on my Acer XP machine with a 40GB
HDD, and it seems that the maximum that this motherboard and XP will
recognise is 137GB. I asked a friend who services computers for
information about EIDE and ATA.
She pointed me to these articles. I am totally mystified as to what computer
gear I should have to run one or more hard drives of 500GB and (a lot )
more.
Brian Swale
She wrote:
ATA is IDE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment
SATA has a different connection to the motherboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Some older motherboards or BIOS will not recognize any more than 137Gb
on a Hard drive. I don't know if yours will. I guess you could check with the
manufacturer to find out.
There is some information and links on this site:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mosaddique/Working%20with%20Large%20
Hard%20Drives.html
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