[Coco] IDE interfaces

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Mar 15 16:06:02 EDT 2016


On Tuesday 15 March 2016 14:02:22 Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:

> On 03/15/2016 07:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Lets look at reality Tormod.  And that is that if new boards are
> > made, they should be designed to handle sata drives simply because
> > that is all we can buy today. Anything we can pick up at a flea
> > market today, quite likely has had its 50,000 hours of spin time and
> > isat best using a cane to get around like I am.
>
> I don't know where you are looking at drives.  Most places still seem
> to carry a few new IDE (PATA) drives.  In addition SATA/IDE converters
> are relatively inexpensive and not that hard to come by.

I have not seen those Theodore, but thats more likely because I've not 
looked, than there aren't such a critter.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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