[Gllug] Disc partitions

[Peter Childs]

2008/10/12 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>:
> On 12 Oct 2008, at 21:32, Alain Williams wrote:
> [...]
>> Most PC motherboards have 2 IDE connections, thus max 4 disks.
>
> Plus another four or more by the cunning trick of plugging in a PCI
> IDE controller card...
>
> Although it's rather moot as IDE is dead, even though the corpse
> continues to twitch. It won't be missed.
>
>
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PATA (or IDE as some people will call it) Is yet another piece of
hardware to fall in to decline much like RS232 and Printer Cables
before it, Forcing us all to upgrade when an upgrade is not strictly
necessary. Forcing even more cash into the likes of AMD and Intel and
so on.

Processors and Motherboards have nearly stopped getting faster and
faster and hence the machines without SATA still exists and are still
useful especially for running Linux (Unless you like running Windows
98)

PATA will continue to patter its rather over sized feet until all PATA
motherboards have died which may be quite a long time, Now that this 7
year old computer is still good enough for most desktop activites*

Peter Childs
*None Games, and High Graphics stuff
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