Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End

ianare writes "Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans, though others will likely follow suit. That's not to say support for the 21-year-old PATA standard is going to vanish overnight; similar to how ISA slots were available long after most of us had ditched our old ISA peripherals."

Comments

Gone missing?

[Burdell]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. I didn't know Slashdot was stored on IDE drives!

You'd think they'd know better

[Anonymous Coward]

Dropping hard drives can really damage them.

Re:You'd think they'd know better

[Mike89]

Lucky the Seagate consumer drives have a five-year warranty ;)

Re:You'd think they'd know better

[thegnu]

shit. I must escape the lt's

and employees get six. &lt---joke
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what?

[Anonymous Coward]

People don't use ISA peripherals anymore? What am I gonna do with my kickin' Sound Blaster 16 then?? I can't just let that baby go to waste!!

Re:Oh fuck.

[m4k3r]

Perhaps your hard drives are overheating ? Installing a fan may help :p

Too bad...

[DogDude]

That's too bad. Seagate makes some decent drives. I only hope that this doesn't apply to Maxtor, now that Seagate owns them. I looooove me some Maxtor drives.

Re:Does it really matter?

[jimbug]

does this mean if I use IDE I can grow a beard now?

PATA won a ribbon cable

[leek]

Seagate SATA long time on this.

They're a bunch of SASies.

PC Joe won't understand SCSI isn't old enough.

What's next???

[NCTRNAL]

The next thing you know, I am going to be told that BetaMax, LaserDiscs, CRT's and Windows NT 4.0 are being phased out. (Huddles in the corner to sob away while playing on his Lite-Brite)

ISA is dead?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can pry my Novell NE2000 board, Sound Blaster Pro, Cirrus Super VGA card, and Promise LBA Extender from my cold, electrocuted hands.

It's a bad idea

[Weaselmancer]

Hardware: Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End

They don't work so well after dropping them. I, for one, will not buy one of these dropped drives at any price.

Re:but the motherboards!

[lpontiac]

USB keyboards require special drivers

Did you miss the Microsoft to Drop Windows 95 by Year End article back in 2001? :)

PS2 keyboards

[Joce640k]

You can have my Model M keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead fingers....

Re:PS2 keyboards

[ozmanjusri]

You can have my Model M keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead fingers....

Your proposal is acceptable.

Re:PS2 keyboards

[British]

The PS/2 ports are to make it so you can accidentally put the mouse in the keyboard port, and the keyboard in the mouse port(wow, great design there guys).

Having USB ports for the mouse & keyboard would take the fun out of that!

Huh, the numlock light is on, but nothing's working.

Re:PS2 keyboards

[dotgain]

Having USB ports for the mouse & keyboard would take the fun out of that!

Don't worry, the speed at which WinXP handles booting up with the mouse and keyboard in different ports than last time more than makes up for that.

Re:PS2 keyboards

[yaroze32]

I agree, My M13 (Black with Teackpoint), from 02-Dec-94 just keep on clicking and clicking and ... well you know ... Clicking.

Re:PS2 keyboards

[Fred_A]

The PS/2 ports are to make it so you can accidentally put the mouse in the keyboard port, and the keyboard in the mouse port(wow, great design there guys).

How else can you have a mouse with 105 buttons ?? Brilliant design I say !

Re:PS2 keyboards

[pomerol]

I have a very old Fujitsu keyboard with excellent key layout and feel. It has an AT connector which I now plug into an AT-to-PS2 adapter which plugs into a PS2-to-USB adapter which finally plugs into my new Shuttle XPC that does not have a PS2 port. The absence of legacy ports on the Shuttle was one of the many reasons I bought it.

I expect that someone will have to pry my old Fujitsu keyboard from my cold dead fingers, and by then the list of adapters will be longer.

And finally, yes, all my storage devices in the Shuttle use SATA connectors.

Re:PS2 keyboards

[mashade]

It's funny, but you're right! All you have to do is switch ports and Windows takes its time shuffling drivers around before you can log in. Grrr wtf is the difference?

Re:PS2 keyboards

[Lord Apathy]

Not True! My mouse and keyboard ports run left to right. Or is that right to left. Well anyway, my mouse port is the one on the left. I think. Just a second. Yeah.. its the one on the left.

Oh boy. I'll probably hate myself for this

[iminplaya]

Yes. And you can stop showering.

well, shit.

[thegnu]

shit. can I get a hand? what the hell are you all doing sitting around letting me make myself look stupid?

bastards.

Re:well, shit.

[Short Circuit]

can I get a hand?

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There ya go. Pretty easy, once you get through the blasted lameness filter. I'd use lorem ipsum, but I don't Slashdotters would appreciate it much. So far, in the time it's taken me to get this past the lameness filter, your post went from a "2 Funny" to a "3 Funny". I wonder how many other people are attempting to craft a response as well. Let's see if using 'l's will get me past the "Too many junk characters" filter. Yup. Now I see that Slashdot doesn't support <pre>, and <tt> is broken. How about <ecode<? Nope. Gotta find something for those spaces. Ah! How about alternating periods and asterisks for a dark background? Ah! Too many junk characters again. Let's alternate the asterisks with spaces. Nope...Replacing the asterisks with zeros works, but now you can't really see the hand. Ah, heck. Let's make a 0/1 bitmap. That's funny...it added a space in the middle of one of the (short!) lines. Let's append spaces to each line...Didn't work. Ah hell, now your post is at "4 Funny". I'll leave both hands up.

Long story short, don't bother with the ascii art.

Re:Oh fuck.

[networkzombie]

What will I do when my drive dies again?

Well, you shouldn't have bought Maxtor drives to begin with.

PC fanboys please read

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. You shouldn't buy a Mac. In fact, please don't. If you are so utterly bereft of creative inspiration that you have no desire for the sorts of applications that only run on Macs (Coda, TextMate, Final Cut Pro, Logic, RapidWeaver, etc.), and you lack the aesthetic intuition to appreciate the elegance of the Mac's comprehensive platform architecture, then by all means keep your filthy, beancounting PC fingers to yourself.

Obligigatory Simpson's quote:

[rts008]

Nelson: "Ha! Ha!"

Now you're bitchin' 'cause you have yer cute lil' cube, Macboy?

LOL!

Re:What about osdev?

[Anonymous Coward]

... to remove the years of accumulated hair, lint and small bits ...

pubes.