Our round-up comprises 4 Intel H55 based motherboards from the likes of Asrock, Asus, ECS, ... which is a single port PATA controller that uses a single PCI Express lane to support older PATA drives.

On first glance, the Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H motherboard's layout is clean and thoughtful. ... it has turned to JMicron to provide combined SATA/PATA support with its JMB361 controller, ...

There is just one controller featured on the LANParty JR X58-T3H6, though we suspect this is what most users will require anyway. DFI has also dropped Firewire support for this small motherboard ...

However, some older motherboards may have IDE enabled by default instead. In this post, we are going to learn how to enable AHCI in Windows 11/10 even after installing the operating system. What ...

The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ...

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. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor April 21 ...

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 connects individual devices to the motherboard.