[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[Pete Hardie]

Paul Cartwright mentioned a similar one.  Have you used this type with
success?

I'm not looking for continual access, so slow USB 2.0 is fine - once I've
imaged the drive, it goes in the Replay and is running on an IDE controller
directly.


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Does it specifically need to be a PATA to SATA adapter?
> Could you use a PATA to USB adapter?
> Maybe something like:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW
>
> It's $10 from Amazon with Prime shipping.  Granted, it's only USB2, not
> USB3.
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, January 7, 2015 9:23 am, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking at
> > the
> > adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more modern
> > systems
> > that
> > have SATA controllers
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Is PATA to SATA will give you significant speed increase or just
> >> convinience of using HDD that are more common today?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anyone had experience with such a device?  I have to replace a drive on
> >>> my ReplayTV box, which uses IDE
> >>> drives only, and while I have an old desktop which still uses PATA, I
> >>> will probably forget this fact and toss it out at siome point.
> >>>
> >>> ​What I need to be able to do is load the IDE drive via dd, and if the
> >>> SATA:PATA adapter allows that as if the drive be controlled via a
> >>> PATA/IDE
> >>> interface, I will get one.
> >>>
> >>> TIA for any info/advice​
> >>>
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