Thus PATA optical drives tended to not boot ... then if you ran out of space and/or didn't buy a better motherboard with additional controller, you would put HDDs on expansion card.

I did not see any of the drives being recognized in the bios. I am beginning to think that there might be a problem with the IDE controller. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Most current motherboards (MOBOs ... of the computer system using a SATA storage controller. SATA hard drives can operate in a backward-compatible PATA/IDE mode, a standard AHCI mode, or vendor ...

On first glance, the Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H motherboard's layout is ... turned to JMicron to provide combined SATA/PATA support with its JMB361 controller, and you can see the PATA port sensibly ...

You can also see the JMicron PATA controller to the very right and just below it the Fox One microprocessor that's designed to make BIOS tweaking easy. Handy, colour-coded motherboard-to-case pins ...

A motherboard with distinct looks and nearly ... Onboard IDE Additional SATA 2x JMicron JMB363 PATA Controller (up to 2 UDMA 133/100/66 devices) 1 External eSATA port + 3 Internal JMB363 SATA ...

SATA replaced the parallel ATA standard. PATA devices used a wide ribbon that would connect two devices to the motherboard, while SATA replaces the ribbon with a seven-pin wire-like ribbon that ...

I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet with their "one PATA slot per motherboard ...

The only thing we don't like is the missing debug LED. We could have easily passed on the PATA, floppy ports and the super I/O controller, The VRM is an analog 6-phase design and as expected it ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...