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Rob Beard wrote: > Well I'd suggest going for SATA. It has a faster transfer rate, the > cables are much thinner (about 1cm wide rather than about 5cm wide for > PATA cables) which makes things easier. Unfortunately there don't seem > to be very many SATA optical drives just yet but I'm sure things will > increase in the next year. > > <snip> > > On the other hand I found that the new Dell systems (we use Dell at > work) don't have any standard PATA ports on them which makes working > with older hard drives a real pain unless you have a SATA to PATA adaptor. Would using a SATA/PATA adaptor not work for optical drives? Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html