On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:01:09 -0500, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

>ALL laptop IDE (aka PATA, EIDE) drives are the same and have a 44-pin
>connector.
>
>However, all laptops currently being made, and most made in the past two
>years, don't use IDE drives, they use SATA drives, which are totally
>different.
Barry

Thanks for your reply.

According to the manual, this is ATA-6 (ATA/100).

I guess I'll have to open it up before I buy and count :-(

Richard
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