[ale] RAM and Harddrives

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 17:02:41 EDT 2008


I assumed he would be able to match interfaces.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>  Right. The original post, however, was phrased in such
>  a way that it was not obvious whether the poster was
>  familiar with the difference between ATA, PATA, SATA,
>  SCSI, etc; and he received what might be taken as an
>  unqualified "no" to the question "is there any constraint
>  on what hard drive I can put in the old machine?"  I am
>  merely trying to clarify for him that there *are* constraints,
>  and not only those imposed by BIOS limitations.



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