On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:59 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > If the new hard drive is a SATO II and your motherboard is 5 years > old your up a creek without a paddle. I need to call Newegg tomorrow > first thing and stop my order. I can't use the 500 GB I ordered. Alternatively, buy a SATA card, so you can add that drive, and other new drives, to an older system. PATA is getting harder to buy, and if you don't want to replace your motherboard so you can keep on using it with newer devices, adding the feature to your board is the next option. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
