09-02-13 15:19 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Backup software   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <52250CB8.830.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV> ml> IDE, ATA, ATAPI are all pretty much synonymous... IDE came   
    EV> ml> about when the HD controller card was removed from the slot and   
    EV> ml> placed on the HD... the card used in the slots was then just an   
    EV> ml> interface card... since then, there is no interface card in a   
    EV> ml> slot as they are now built directly onto the motherboards and   
    EV> ml> the cables connected to them there...   
      
    TW> the KEY is the above statement. Teh Three teram are basiclly   
    TW> the same thing and are used almost universaly interchangable.   
    TW> In fact the MB, 2007 era ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS, I just replaced   
    TW> with my all SATA Drives MB even called the HD cables IDE and   
    TW> labeled the connectior on the Mother Board IDE   
      
   Tom,   
      
   I noticed that in the BIOS of my HP a1430n XP computer that   
   I got in 2006 that they are called IDE but the MB connectors   
   and the 250MB HDD are SATA.   
      
   And then there is the CD-ROM in a X-BOX MS calls a Disk Drive.   
      
   Another neighbor I talk with (not the one helping me get the EZFlyer),   
   when he talks about his Disk Drive on his X-BOX 360 always confuses   
   me because I think he is talking about a HDD instead of the CD-ROM   
   Drive.   
      
   He always has to explain to me what the difference between the   
   Disk Drive he is talking about and the Hard Drive is.   
      
   But You Know how confused I can be!   
      
   ... If it ain't broke, release a NEW version until it is!   
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