To achieve the task of interfacing now-vintage IDE devices with the Raspberry Pi, [Manawyrm] elected to use the single board computer’s GPIO pins to get the job done. 23 pins are required, with 16 ...

To achieve the task of interfacing now-vintage IDE devices with the Raspberry Pi, [Manawyrm] elected to use the single board computer’s GPIO pins to get the job done. 23 pins are required, with 16 ...

I recently bought a Core I7 920 based machine from CyberpowerPC without an optical drive because I had one at home. So, I installed the IDE HP dvd drive as master on the lone ide connection on the ...

Some tech is better left in the ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...

Due to the waning popularity of Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) technology in favor of the newer and speedier Serial ATA-based disk drives, Seagate LLC has acknowledged plans to stop ...

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...