> stefanowrote:
the sata drive i'm trying to get working is a regular ata (100) ide
drive attached to the motherboard via sata bus by a sata/pata
> converter found into the abit box

hm... you know, there will not be any difference if you connect it to
ata100/133 port then... even though pata supports 133mb/s and sata
150mb/s, your hard drive (well.. any ide hard drive, pata or sata)
can only read at max ~65-70mb/s, so the pata interface is more than
fast enough for your drive

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