esecallum Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 yes...yes that's right seagate have announced they are stopping production of pata/ide hard drives....in NOVEMBER 07!...last chance to buy them...i am dismayed....the traitors.we need to get sata drivers for windows 98 and winme....urgently....how do we do this??anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjecina Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 This is bad news but .....Windows 98 SE is working with SATA drivers. When you speak about Seagate there is no better place to see data about how to install SATA hard drive on Windows 98 SE sistem of this:http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amocanu Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 you could always use ide emulation with sata drives.....when i select this option in BIOS the sata hard drive is recognized as IDE and it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Just get something like this: http://www.computerplug.com/show_product.p...t_id=A-SATA-IDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 (edited) I was shopping at "Cheap Guys computers" in Longwood, FL just today.I saw a device that looked just like the one in the above link, hanging on the rack.It was a bidirectional IDE - SATA adapter. With it you could attach an IDE drive to a sata mobo, or a SATA drive to an IDE mobo port.I've been using an IDE to SATA adapter for well over a year, on several different PC's and it works great. It greatly increases the data transfer rate for a 7200rpm IDE drive.With this new adapter, you can easily use the new SATA drives on the olderIDE only mobo's.It was list priced at $19.95. That's a steal for what it's capable of doing.Cheers!B)PS: I've searched the internet for that info about Seagate and I can't find it.I've seen nothing on Seagates web page.Where can I read the info in full? Edited September 10, 2007 by Andromeda43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastlanephil Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 PS: I've searched the internet for that info about Seagate and I can't find it.I've seen nothing on Seagates web page.Where can I read the info in full?I found a July 30, 2007 announcement in PC World:Seagate Confirms 'Phase Out' of PATA Disk DrivesSeagate says it will stop building drives with Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) technology, due to its waning popularity.Brian Fonseca, Computerworldhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135266-pg,1/article.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offler Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 For this reason i use Adaptec's Parallel SCSI Adapter and i have here one Cheetah. Highly reliable, compatible and effective solutions, and as long i know the prices are going down rapidly (even still much more expensive as other solutions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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