Fergus, On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:15, Fergus Wilde wrote:
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Since no-one's come back, I'll guess that it's a Serial ATA disk and controller, but since I've never seen an SATA system nor dealt with one it seems possible. Maybe post your motherboard details, and a description of the connectors and cables that attach the disk in question?
SATA (Serial ATA) cables are much smaller than IDE or SCSI cables (being serial, there are far fewer conductors) and they're not busses--intead of having multiple attachments (up to 16 for SCSI and two for IDE / ATA), they're point-to-point--there's only one disk per cable. The large picture of the red folded cables at the top of this page, http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/SATACables.php, are SATA cables.
Cheers Fergus
Randall Schulz