Re: SATA/IDE adapters and paging file performance

Lothar of the Hill People wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:06:24 +1000, "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
> uttered like so:
>
>>You sure that there is just one IDE connector ? Thats unusual.
>
> Quite sure. They must be starting to phase those out these days in
> favor of SATA connectors (there are a lot of SATA connectors in this
> computer). I was also a bit dismayed to discover that there is no COM
> port on this computer. It's as if Dell is thinking that if someone is
> buying a state-of-the-art high-end computer, they wouldn't possibly
> ever want to install any legacy devices on it. Personally I think
> there should be a much longer transition period for things like that.

It's not Dell, it's Intel--they're determined to kill off the conventional
serial and parallel ports in favor of USB, so they removed the support from
their chipsets. Dell would have to put a separate UART in the machine with
the necessary glue logic to hook it to the PCI bus in order to have a
serial port. While I'm sure they're capable of doing that it would be
tying up an IRQ that many users would rather put to work elsewhere.

I suspect that the situation is similar with ATA vs IDE.

>>It would be better to leave it where it is.
>>
>
> Thanks for the advice, I will do that.
>
> Lothar

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