Summary: Can someone tell me the difference between Serial ATA, Ultra ATA & Ultra DMA ? The Seagate 200gb is Ultra ATA 100. According to the board manual and t...
Summary: Wanting to connect a IDE hard drive to my new computer with SATA drive support. I purchased a Serial ATA to Ultra ATA converter card from an on-line c...
Summary: I am about to install a Seagate Ultra ATA 100 80gb drive into a system running a WD IDE 66 DMA drive. First what's the differance betweem Ultra ata 10...
Summary: O.k. guyes, this newby needs some info. I know the higher the Rpms on the hard drive i.e. 5400 slow turtle, 7200 fast, 10,000 super fast, etc. But wha...
Summary: I am confused with hard disk nomenclature. Are Ultra DMA 100 and Ultra ATA 100 the same thing? Or is it just another way of saying the same thing? Doe...
Summary: I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus harddisk (80GB) with came with a Ultra ATA/133 card. I have 2 harddisks, one CD-Rom and one CD-RW in my comput...
Summary: Okay, this one baffles me. A friend of mine bought a super huge harddrive from Western Digital. Since it seems Windows can't handle drives above 137 g...
Summary: my mobo's (jet v266b) manual says it has 2 pci ide controllers that supports PCI bus mastering, ata pio/dma and ultra dma 33/66/100/133 and has a tran...
Summary: I'm thinking to get new harddrive, and what i need from new hard drive are, speed, quietness. I don't realy care about size of HD but i need 100+. My ...
Summary: Yeah, I've been asking so many questions because I want to upgrade my desktop. Here's the hardware I want: A good quality black or transparent lookin...
Summary: I'll give some info as to why I am asking this question. The other night I went a head and did a clean install of Media Center in my Dell /XPS 400. Th...
Summary: well i bought a new hard drive (MAXTOR 7L250S0 MAXLINE III 250GB 7200RPM 16MB CACHE SATA ROHS) and tried to install it, i put it, plug the sata red c...
Summary: Why does my WD800JD not show as Sata. Device manager shows only Intel 82801EB ultra ATA storage controllers When I loaded XP and pressed F6 and tried ...
Summary: I have a Dell Dimension 8300, with a 120GB Maxtor HD installed, which uses a SATA interface. I'm currently trying to install a new 100GB Maxtor HD, b...
Summary: I can't get windows xp to see a new Western digital SATA hard drive. It only sees it as a (properties of hard drive) a standard disk drive. In my bios...
Summary: Hi - I have an asustek P4B266 motherboard and am wondering whether it is possible to add a second hard-drive that is SATA? The original drive is an Ul...
Summary: Hi: I want to get a new harddrive, and I have some questions want to know before purchasing. Question.1 Is ATA and Ultra ATA use IDE cable? Question....
Summary: I have an Intel D865GLC motherboard (P4 3.0) that supports both PATA and SATA. My existing hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB Ultra ATA/10...
Summary: So I got a SATA HDD, but I can't install windows XP on it because it doesn't recognize the harddrive. I have tried pressing F6 DUring installation an...
Summary: Generic question - I have an old computer and I'm upgrading pieces one by one. First step - buying new HD. Looking at a SATA II drive or its equival...
Summary: Hi, I have an ASUS P4P800 motherboard with a 120 GB IDE hard disk drive with Win 2000 PRO installed. I also have 2 CD / DVDRW installed and I am addin...
Summary: Heya! I recenly purchased all the components to get myself a new computer on my desk. After putting them all together, all seem to work fine w/ the...
Summary: All drives are ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)Well, Except for SCSI and SATA. But there are diferent kinds of ATA there's ATA, ATA2, ATA3, Ultra...
Summary: i need help, is there any difference between the sata, ata, and ide connecters, i am about to get a new harddrive, and does all types of hard drives h...