[ale] old newbie

[skotchman at gmail.com (Scott Castaline)]

On 12/25/2010 06:20 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> Hello alers,
>
> I used to subscribe to this list a few years ago while running SuSE,
> Redhat and Fedora.  I have been busy with other things since then. I
> recently decided to upgrade my systems and I was appalled at the
> changes in the technology. For instance, one can hardly get a
> motherboard that has IDE ports on it. Some may have only one. What to
> do with my IDE harddrives. and dvd burners, let alone my SCSI
> equipment? I have to get all SATA or USB? Even my 2006 Scott Mueller
> book  (Upgrading and Repairing PC's) is out of date. Are there
> adapters for IDE to SATA  for example. Is there anyone with similar
> problems or is there a good site for old newbie's like me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cor
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Not sure if it'll help, but they still have PCI - IDE cards, I believe 
SIIG still has them at Fry's or MicroCenter. There are SATA2IDE 
Adapters, not sure if there are any problems with them, never tried them 
myself. Check Newegg, I think is where I saw them.