[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[Pete Hardie]

That's the original sort of thing I was looking at, but since I only need
it hooked up for the imaging of the disk, I like the USB:IDE cable/adapters

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:01 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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