Hello,
That's very interesting information. The main reason I see for
distinguishing between SATA and PATA drives is that they use different
controller hardware, and very distinctly different cables, so they
cannot really be lumped together as being the same.
I'm still used to the older terminology which used to always refer to
PATA drives as IDE, and will try to remember to update my references to
PATA from now on.
System Information still refers to my PATA drives interface on the
motherboard as an IDE interface, and since I have no SATA interface and
never have had, I have no idea what it's motherboard interface is
referred to as for comparison.
Later, Ray Parrish
Hugh Vandervoort wrote:
> There's not enough confusion about this subject, so here's some more.
> I'm running a single drive on my ASUS RAID controller. This is designated as
> Promise 1 + 0 Stripe and it came about when my RAID setup died and I wanted
> to use a single disk on that controller. One of these days I'll figure out
> why it's called RAID when it's a single disk.
> On another point, both SATA and PATA are IDE.
> Wikipedia:
> "The term *Integrated Drive Electronics* (IDE) refers not just to the
> connector and interface definition, but also to the fact that the drive
> controller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_controller> is integrated
> into the drive, as opposed to a separate controller on or connected to the
> motherboard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherboard>."<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment#cite_note-3>
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Ray Parrish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> The RAID card was mistake. It's designed for using pairs or more of hard
>> drives to write data to in a fashion that either stripes the data onto the
>> drives to spread the file load around simulating a larger drive on the two
>> of them, or write the data to both of them together, to create a redundant
>> file system with the data duplicated on both drives.
>>
>> Either way you need at least two drives to mount a RAID file system. I'm
>> not even sure if you can hook up a single drive to a RAID controller and get
>> it to work by itself. You should have looked for a plain SATA drive
>> controller card. I've never actually had a RAID setup myself 'though, so I
>> suppose it might be possible to forego installing the RAID drivers, and just
>> use the card as a SATA drive controller only, and it might work that way.
>>
>>
>
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