Does dell latitude D610 motherboard have EIDE support?

Captain Kirk

Captain Kirk

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Hi Cybertechs:cool:

Does dell latitude D610 motherboard have EIDE support?

I just now heard about EIDE.
As far as I knew there was only IDE.
But just recently, I heard that there are now 2 types of hd's: SATA
And then again, now I see there are 3!!!
My gosh, how many different types of hardware are they going to keep coming out with?:(
Why not just stick to the same one [IDE]? It would make things a whole lot easier!!!!!!!

The Interface is DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra), but it says that it has an EIDE connection.

Is the EIDE physically the same as IDE?

Do they look exactly the same?

Is there a plastic peice around the EIDE so that I might not be able to put a 7 pin adapter on it, or the other one?:confused:
 
Captain Kirk said:
Does dell latitude D610 motherboard have EIDE support?
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yes.

But just recently, I heard that there are now 2 types of hd's: SATA
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nope. There are more than that. ATA is the new kid on the block. PATA (IDE) and SATA are physically different, so you can't mix them up. SATA is electrically compatible with IDE, thus why you can use IDE mode on a SATA controller. All IDE drives are compatible. What you really need to watch for is the difference between the 40 pin and the 44 pin as you have been told in the other thread.
And then again, now I see there are 3!!!
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wrong. there are way more. http://www.hdd-tool.com/hdd-basic/hard-drive-introduction-and-comparison.htm will help you.

My gosh, how many different types of hardware are they going to keep coming out with?:(
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as many as necessary.
Why not just stick to the same one [IDE]? It would make things a whole lot easier!!!!!!!
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Because IDE is a limit to system performance. Even a SATA 1.5 drive will run circles around ATA 100. Old interfaces limit everything. Just like if we stuck to AGP, then it would not have been worth ever making a graphics card newer than the HD 3870 as that was the fastest that the interface could make use of. Anything more would just be wasting money on performance you could not see. It is more about performance than ease of use. And a lot of your questions could have simply have been googled for a quick answer. Don't take me wrong, I am glad you are making use of the forum, but basic knowledge is free and easy to find.

The Interface is DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra), but it says that it has an EIDE connection.
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they are the same.

Is the EIDE physically the same as IDE?

Do they look exactly the same?
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yes. It is a speed difference, but they are the same electrically. Just like SATA 6 and SATA 3.

Is there a plastic peice around the EIDE so that I might not be able to put a 7 pin adapter on it, or the other one?:confused:
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there may be. We can not say for sure without a link to the specific drive.
 
I am not 100% sure, but your adapter should fit. And just to note, the drive sold.

as you can see in the pic, that drive has the top steel plate near to the 44 pin connector, so it may be a close fit.
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Wolfeking,
Thanks for the input.

Yes, your right, those metal brackets on the end could potentially get in the way. I'm going to look at my hd and adapter again when I pull it out.

I cannot pull it out and look at it right now because it is in the middle of a 17 hour partition recovery process that I don't want to interrupt or mess up: another 17 hours. And this already happened once when I had left my computer on for a long time because I didn't want to be hard on my computer so I went to turn it off.

But first I exited the partition recovery program and it deleted a fully completed 17 hour scan of the scan. Which I know because after I exited the program, I restarted the program to test out this feature of the program so that I will know the in's and outs of it. I'm starting to think that this is not the best recovery program.

Captain Kirk
 
I ran 3 recovery programs with 4 runs, 1 run each. I lost 20 Gigs of data. I was NOT able to recover any data because of the Killdisk equivolent data wipe that the XP delete partition option did to my computer!!!!!!!!!!

I have IDE

I think I figured it out:
ANY PATA equivlent [with IDE pins] hd will fit on the adapter
ANY SATA equivlent hd will not fit on the adapter

There are two general types of HD's: SATA and PATA
 
Captain Kirk said:
I ran 3 recovery programs with 4 runs, 1 run each. I lost 20 Gigs of data. I was NOT able to recover any data because of the Killdisk equivolent data wipe that the XP delete partition option did to my computer!!!!!!!!!!
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Like I said, deleting the partition is NOT equivalent to a Killdisk wipe. Don't EVER expect to recover anything after you delete and format a partition. Always backup your data before doing anything of the sort.

Captain Kirk said:
I think I figured it out:
ANY PATA equivlent [with IDE pins] hd will fit on the adapter
ANY SATA equivlent hd will not fit on the adapter

There are two general types of HD's: SATA and PATA
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I'm glad you finally figured out that SATA drives don't work with a D610.
 
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