http://www.overclockers.com/tips00988/

This is also reported by The Inquirer.

Natively, no.

:?: I don't know how reputable the sources you're citing are, but in my humbled opinion I really doubt that PATA support gets dropped or replace by SATA (or other medium) so fast; eventually it might happen. Just look at the 1.44 floppy drives, lol you still can see those around!

Yeah that is a sticky situation for CD/DVD drives. Only Plextor makes an SATA DVD. It's $100+.

I'm glad Intel is getting rid of the IDE since SATA is PnP/HotPlug but it's going to be an extra expense especially because Dell will need a HELLUVA LOT OF EM.

Don't flame but that maybe another reason there are rumors of them adopting AMD desktops.

Dell made MORE than Intel AND MS last year.

Dell Q42005 - multiply by ~4.3 for 2005 growth
They don't need an extra expense - maybe shortage - like that for millions of desktops.

The floppy will die once vista is released.

I thought that floppy support would be carried on to future OSs. For example, I'm trying to cross over from my P4c to something better and I find in most stores (tigerdirect, etc.) 13 in 1 floppy combo drives. But oh well, I guess that old technology must be put away...Yikes!

I hope so. It's really the only component that hasn't changed since the late 80's, yet it still survives. I haven't used a floppy in at least 4 or 5 years.

I haven't used a floppy in at least 4 or 5 years.

LOL

Damn it i got myself a few ata drives that i was planning to use on my new conroe system. Will ati do the same with their new chipset?(i hope not)

You can still get PATA it just has to be with external chip rather then from the southbridge and yes ATI's SB600 has 1 PATA port.

Kick ass atleast ati aint betraying us ata user's like intel is! Thanks Action_Man!

This is one case that I must really say, "what were they thinking????"

If Core 2 flops because of this, I would hate to be the manager making the PATA decision on the 965 feature set Nah core 2 cant flop cause of this. The chipset on the other hand probably will don't you think so?

Its a push that had to be made.

Here is the product spec sheet with 6 SATA ports supported and also support for eSATA of External SATA "ONLY".

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/P965/prodbrief.pdf

Only when MS officially supports "only ZipDrives or CDs for boot disks." My MSI LiveUpdate still wants a floppy for a "rescue disk." Of course I only bought a Zip drive. I had to buy a floppy just to flash my BIOS.

PITA SOB.

Whilst true they can just add an external chip. Hopefully it'll force optical drive makers to sata.