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| Thread ID: 34890 | 2003-06-27 01:00:00 | is e-ide compatible with ide? | spoc (4100) | Press F1 |
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| 155504 | 2003-06-27 01:00:00 | hey. i was looking on trademe and i found this cd writer i wanted. i have the money but it says it runs on an E-IDE / ATAPI interface. i know normal the cdrom i have is normal ide but can work of atapi as well. basically, will the eide cd work in a normal ide puter? thanx spoc |
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| 155505 | 2003-06-27 01:02:00 | unless your pc is disturbingly old, it'll be fine. | sanchez (3445) | ||
| 155506 | 2003-06-28 01:47:00 | IDE was the first moden way to connect a hard drive to a computer. the next step up is E-IDE. and you have heard of ATA?? most of the time ypou can just think of ATA as another name for IDE (there is a bit more to it than that but we will not go there right now) ATAPI is a bigger better version of ATA. so if your computer is less than 5 years old you will have ATA, E-IDE, ATAPI all spported by that one ribbin cable :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 155507 | 2003-06-28 04:09:00 | You might find that an "old" IDE CD drive won't boot on a modern computer, even when the BIOS is set up to do that. An EIDE/ATAPI one will. Neither will boot on an old computer. Both will still work as data drives, with an appropriate driver installed, on older computers. | Graham L (2) | ||
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