Well, there’s your problem...

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 10/29/2019 at 18:38 • Filed to: None

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I’m trying to revive my 2011-vintage gaming peecee but for some reason the PATA drives would be detected but not mount. Well, I think I found the problem. Yup - that would do it. SATA is such a joy in comparison.

Now to try to recover the data on the RAID 10 array. 4 hard drives spinning away for a whopping total of 320gb of space. Nowadays I have 480gb SSDs sitting in my scrap pile that will hold more, consume less power and heat than this array even though they are shit compared to other SSDS.

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/29/2019 at 19:09

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IDE MASTER RACE... what’s a 2011 PC doing with PATA drives anyways? O_o

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 10/29/2019 at 19:20

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I have a hard time not using all available ports and slots on a board , so I used the PATA port. I was unemployed when I built this machine, and thus a lot of the pieces and parts (case, drives, I/O cards, etc.) were things I had laying around the house. It did the job, with the Phenom II X4 965 chip and a whopping 8GB of RAM, but I couldn’t use it and a space heater at the same time. I didn’t really need to since this computer makes for a pretty good space heater by itself . Best not run it in summer, but in winter it provides nice comfort to the home office. Even now, sitting next to it, I’m a little too toasty, and it’s 41 degrees outside...

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/29/2019 at 19:26

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That looks like a terrible cable. Why not use a plain ol ribbon?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 10/29/2019 at 19:34

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If I didn’t use an 80-pin cable I might not get the full ATA133 speed. The standard 40-pin cables may not give me maximum performance. I just need the system to run long enough for me to migrate the data to an external drive.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/29/2019 at 22:11

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But we had 80-pin ribbons...

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/29/2019 at 22:14

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Still reaching back a bit. I think I bought my last IDE drive circa 2004.

Granted, I’ve never especially liked the SATA connectors, but there’s no question it was an upgrade on the whole.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > facw 10/29/2019 at 22:26

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It’s been so long I had forgotten about those. Now that you mention it, I do remember the standard 80-pin cables.

This is the cable that was in the machine so I used it rather than heading down to the basement to find a standard ribbon cable. I took out the PATA DVD burner so I didn’t need to use both PATA ports in the computer, so I just used the one remaining cable for both hard drives.