[ubuntu-uk] IDE -> SATA

[Rob Beard]

norman wrote:
>> Ah, right.  Like Norman, I'm a bit of an old-timer (/pace/, Norman!), 
>> and was used to setting jumpers on IDE drives for masters and slaves; 
>> so I guess I just transferred this habit to SATA, and assumed it was a 
>> hardware thing there, too.  Never thought of checking for BIOS settings 
>> when the drives were installed!  Doh!
> 
> I don't mind the old-timer bit, in fact it is quite an honour to have it
> recognised.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 

/cue music from Hovis advert.

When I were a lad I remember the joys of setting jumpers on my Sound 
Galaxy (cheap Sound Blaster rip off) sound card and playing around 
endlessly with my config.sys and autoexec.bat settings to squeeze as 
much conventional memory out of the machine as I could.

Ahh those were the days.  Kids these days, they don't know they've been 
born with all this plug and play malarkey.

Rob