[plug] Do you have a large-capacity Laptop-sized IDE drive...?

[Kevin Shackleton]

Aren't they properly called PATA drives?  IDE (Integrated Drive
Electronics) is applicable to both Serial and Parallel "Advanced
Technology" Attachment, though of course when the term IDE was first
used (1986) only parallel was around.  IDE refers to having the
controller on board (not just a few transistors) and replaced ST-506 and
ESDI which had controllers on an ISA card slotted into the motherboard.

Kevin.

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 17:45 +0800, Paul Antoine wrote:
> Richard: note that Leon is after an IDE drive, not a SATA drive.
>