[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[David Ritchie]

Alex,
    good catch. What about this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400465&cm_re=SATA_to_IDE-_-12-400-465-_-Product
looks what is needed to hook SATA drives to IDE systems. $24.95

-- David

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> That one goes the wrong direction.  He needs to hook an IDE/PATA drive
> to a SATA controller.  The one in the link is to hook a SATA drive to an
> IDE/PATA controller.
>
> On 2015-01-07 20:36, David Ritchie wrote:
> > Fry's has small one that will fit on the back of a drive - look for SATA
> > cables and they are on  the same aisle (in Milton).
> >
> > 5983774 -- SATA to PATA HARD-DRIVE ADAPTER
> > http://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
> > $16.99 - There may be other mail order places that are cheaper..
> >
> > -- David
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> That's another good idea.  I will keep that in mind as a fallback plan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Get a USB case.  I have a couple adapters to do exactly what you're
> >>> trying to do (run an IDE drive in a SATA-only system) but I haven't
> >>> tried them yet.  I do have several USB-IDE cases that I use for various
> >>> things (I still have six machines with IDE drives) and have no problem
> >>> using dd/rsync or anything else.
> >>>
> >>> Is your IDE drive a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch?  I actually picked up two
> >>> USB-IDE 2.5-inch external cases from Fry's for less than $10 each.  One
> >>> is actively running right now as the primary drive for my RPi mail
> >>> server (I have a pile of 2.50-inch drives laying around).
> >>>
> >>> I have also seen cabled adapters that have no housing.  It's just the
> >>> bare IDE connector with a USB cable hanging off of it.
> >>>
> >>> On 2015-01-07 06:50, Pete Hardie wrote:
> >>>> Yep - talking down to old drives, as opposed to running new drive in
> old
> >>>> cases.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> So the other way around
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> >>> 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​
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> Pete Hardie
> >>>>>>>> --------
> >>>>>>>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
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