external hard drive ide pata work with Intel Macs?

[California]

Do you guys know if an external ide ata or PATA hard drive will work via firewire with an Intel Mac that all use internal SATA hard drives?

Wondering...

 

[itickings]

Yes, it will work. The computer will see it as a firewire storage device. It won't even know (much less care) if it is SATA or IDE.