There are many different features that are special about the Pata Hard Drive. These special features include, but are not limited to, they are older, and their max capacity is 250 GB.
yes. pata and ide are the same thing.
Yes. If your computer does not support PATA directly, you will need to purchase a PATA to SATA adapter board.
A PATA connector
There is difference between SATA and PATA HDD but no difference between the formatting..
yes
Yes because both connectors are same shape and size.
A serial hard drive is the same as a SATA hard drive. SATA is Serial ATA, and PATA is Parallel ATA.
configure the bios settings to auto detect the master hard drive
parallel advanced technology attachment
The system will not be able to communicate with that hard drive.
a SATA hard drive can be connected to and controlled by a SAS hard drive controller
The Toshiba A15-S157 uses a standard 2.5" 40 GB EIDE / PATA hard drive.