[ale] old newbie

Cornelis van Dijk cor.angela0 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 17:15:42 EST 2010


I guess I am confused here. There are several different replies to one
of my posts.

Anyway, I would like to thank William Witt for the lacie link. That
worked great! Cor

On 12/28/10, Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that message. Yes there are IDE to SATA adapters. I can
> find the link if you need it. They are about fifteen bucks. Cor
>
> On 12/25/10, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/25/2010 06:20 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>>> Hello alers,
>>>
>>> I used to subscribe to this list a few years ago while running SuSE,
>>> Redhat and Fedora.  I have been busy with other things since then. I
>>> recently decided to upgrade my systems and I was appalled at the
>>> changes in the technology. For instance, one can hardly get a
>>> motherboard that has IDE ports on it. Some may have only one. What to
>>> do with my IDE harddrives. and dvd burners, let alone my SCSI
>>> equipment? I have to get all SATA or USB? Even my 2006 Scott Mueller
>>> book  (Upgrading and Repairing PC's) is out of date. Are there
>>> adapters for IDE to SATA  for example. Is there anyone with similar
>>> problems or is there a good site for old newbie's like me?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Cor
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>> Not sure if it'll help, but they still have PCI - IDE cards, I believe
>> SIIG still has them at Fry's or MicroCenter. There are SATA2IDE
>> Adapters, not sure if there are any problems with them, never tried them
>> myself. Check Newegg, I think is where I saw them.
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