lordabbott: Hi  FlutterBy,  I know SATA can support four devices per channel but never used PATA. I still can't figure out the difference between PATA and a normal ATA drive, to be honest I don't think there is, so I am assuming the PATA is to be treated as a normal two device per channel IDE 40 or 80 wire. .......Hi LordAbbott, it ...

You might want to query your manufacturer to see how many times they say data can be written to an individual address, but to all intents and purposes, see:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070322140914AAFDCtj

Does anybody know how I can copy a DVD and save it on my hard drive? All the help directions I can find tell you how to burn to another dvd. I want to save it on my hard drive. Any suggestions?

or use run.... diskmgmt.msc [enter] it is the same in Vista as in XP. I prefer this tool since it lets you look at all of your disk structures - though not relevant if you have only 1 HDD with 1 partition. :)