How is the PATA support in new motherboards?

Drenlin

Drenlin

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I'm assuming it's stable since the drivers have been around forever, but it never hurts to ask. I have a few 40GB ones lying around and I'm thinking about adding a couple into my new build, when I finally start it. One for linux as a backup OS, one to back up my pictures.
 
You mean driver support? I don't think that's ever been a problem - you should be more worried about whether the mobo even has one (IDE port that is).

Also, nothing wrong with using an older HD to try out Linux, but are you sure it's a good idea to use them as backup storage? I don't know exactly how old the drives are you're talking about, but usually 5+ years old drives should be used with some caution, especially if you're putting stuff in it that you don't want to lose.
 
That's not the only place I'm going to keep the pictures...the one I'm on now also serves as a home file server. Just though it'd be nice to have a little extra peace of mind, you know?

I figured the driver support would be good(though you never know), but last time I checked a lot of newer mobos didn't have ATA 133 yet for some reason, and some only allowed one device. New chipsets have come out since then though, so I wasn't sure.
 
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All chipsets these days and even most older ones should support Ultra-ATA (ATA-133), they probably just haven't mentioned since it's been the standard for PATA for some time now.
 
Intel chips never had ATA-133 support as far as I know. But dont always take newegg as where you get your spec. Like this Gigabyte, newegg shows ATA-100 but it supports ATA-133
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392
1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max

Gigabyte
http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Product...ard&ProductID=3096&ProductName=GA-MA770T-UD3P
1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices

Doesnt really matter, if the drives you have are 40gb. there probably not ATA-133 anyway.
 
At least one of them is. Haven't looked at the others.

Good find there, I'd have never found that. Good to know that's been fixed. (or is being fixed..)

Now that I think about it though, there's only a 264 Mb/s difference in them. The thing I was really wondering about was how many devices are supported, and that seems to be 2 all across the board.
 
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Indeed. Wasn't always so, though. I distinctly remember looking at a few newer mobos that only supported 1 device...
 
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