John Summerfield wrote: >> Can I run a SATA disk with an ATA controller? >> One of my disks is about to die, >> and I've been looking for a large - say 500GB or larger - disk, >> and all the ones I see seem to be SATA. > I suggest you look a little harder for an old-fashioned ATA drives, > they're fairly easy to buy around these parts. I can get a 750 Gbyte > ATA-6 from where I usually shop. Yes, thanks, that is the way I have decided to go. I hope the disk lasts long enough to transfer the data ... Smartd has been saying it will die in the next 24 hours for over a week. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
