> I must confess to ignorance on this subject. I will check out "PATA".

This used to refer to 'Parallel ATA' drives, i.e. the original IDE drives t=
hat use a 40 way ribbon cable for connection, to distinguish them from SATA=
, or 'Serial ATA' drives that are now used and can have more than two drive=
s connected to a controller.
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