Once upon a time, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Not even. Just don't use new technology as excuse to accelerate abandonment > of old hardware. New stuff does not instantly convert old stuff into bad > stuff. We don't force old BMWs into salvage yards just because new ones use > different sized tires. Tire manufacturers don't need to throw away the molds > for the old tire sizes, just as HD manufacturers don't need to throw away all > tooling for PATA HD interfaces. Old machines work fine with new tires/HDs, > regardless how much better newer machines with more evolved tires/HDs (might) > work. A car analogy isn't exactly appropriate here; car lifetime is probably an order of magnitude longer than the typical hard drive. Also, tires are a consumable, while for a large percentage of computer users, hard drives are not (they are inside the magic box somebody got at Wal-Mart). In any case, I don't know what your problem is. I went to newegg.com and still see over a dozen PATA drives listed, in sizes from 80G to 500G. If you really need more PATA drives and want a wider selection, buy a SATA-PATA adapter and use a SATA drive. Hard drive manufacturers operate on razor-thin margins and can only make a certain number of drives. If the vast majority of new drives bought are SATA, they are going to stop making PATA drives (or at least raise the prices significantly). They are not in business to cater to the small (and rapidly shrinking) market. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
