Which Plextor - SATA or PATA (E IDE)
Posted by: Bosh on 03 March 2011
In anticipation, following advice on here, I'm going to start ripping my favourite CDs to FLAC with dbPoweramp and EAC and going to invest in a Plextor drive to optimize rips
Without taking my PC to bits again (2004, 2.8GHz, 2mb ram, running XP SP2) and even then I'd probably be no wiser, could anyone confirm whether I need a SATA or PATA version?
If the former, should I go for the 860, 880 or 890?
Posted on: 03 March 2011 by Frank Abela
Did you mean 2GB RAM?
On the PC front, if it's 2004, I'd be surprised if you had a SATA connection in there.
Regards,
Frank.
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Posted on: 03 March 2011 by Bosh
Thanks Frank - yes I did mean 2GB ram, recently upgraded from 500mb
Posted on: 04 March 2011 by Michael Chare
If you are planning to install an internal drive, I suggest that you make sure that you have suitable free connectors before making a purchase! You proably only need to take the cover off to do this. Have you already installed extra disk drives? Are you just replacing an existing optical drive?
Posted on: 05 March 2011 by fatcat
I have a 2005 PC with SATA. If your computer is SATA compatible, there should be an option in the BIOS to switch SATA on or off. On my computer it’s in the “Integrated Peripherals” section.
Posted on: 08 March 2011 by Bosh
Thanks for the input, I have been reading it and gone for a Plextor PX-870a which is I think a new (PATA) model and it arrived yesterday.
Installed it this morning but this took longer than expected. I removed the PCs DVD only drive, slotted in the Plextor in its place below the CD-rw drive, booted up to find no drives at all. To cut a long story short the Plextor will not let me have 2 drives in the PC, when it's booted up with another drive wired in tandem (whether it is 1st in line or the other drive is) the PC shows no drives!!
Any ideas why? Its working fine and not a great problem, just a pain if I need to leave it copying disc to disc
Posted on: 08 March 2011 by Michael Chare
Have you looked in the bios configuration? The bios should show the new drive, but you might need to save the configuration. The other point to check is the Pata Master and Slave jumper settings.
Posted on: 08 March 2011 by Bosh
Yeah thanks Michael, definitely a case of RTFM. First thing it says is to set the rear jumper settings and they were set wrong
