Art Alexion on 12 Dec 2010 20:17:50 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] External drive casing for EIDE HD

I see ps/2 on HP, non-Dell servers, and better mobos.  No IDE in a long time.  I grabbed a PCI IDE card when I encountered the same problem with a new PC.  Worked well, and no messy externals.

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Art Alexion

On Dec 8, 2010 10:42 AM, "Mike Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
> On 12/8/2010 10:28 AM, Adam Zion wrote:
>> I just got my first new PC- as in one I purchased new, rather than
>> inherited or assembled from spare parts- in 15 years. It's a
>> linux-specific box from System76. It's quite nice, but I failed to
>> understand that it is SATA-only, without any EIDE ports whatsoever.
>
> Yeah, new machines don't really come with EIDE anymore. Nor PS/2 ports,
> mostly. Some still have serial ports ...
>
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