[Klug-general] Hard Drives

[James Morris]

On 17 April 2011 11:26, James Blake <jimmyblake at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter
> I guess the answer, as always, is that it depends what you're trying to do.
> First SATA vs PATA:
>
> PATA: with ATA-4 33 Mbps / with ATA-6 100 Mbps
> SATA: 1.5 Gbps
> SATA II: 3 Gbps


Hi,

I understood that SATA didn't really offer much over PATA... Or a SATA
controller operating in SATA mode doesn't offer anything over a SATA
controller operating in PATA mode. I vaguely recall when I first got
my current system a few years ago, hdparm showed no difference. If I
wanted to boot into Vista I had to turn SATA off, and at the time I
caused problems when booting Linux configured for SATA with the
controller in PATA mode. I've since forgotten all about it.  Think I'm
using SATA now.. Not quite sure though. lspci shows Intel Corporation
82801IB (ICH9) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02).

James.