[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[Alex Carver]

Same thing, it takes a SATA drive and turns it into an IDE/PATA
compatible unit.  The giveaway is the 40 pin male header and the SATA
connector being female (to mate with the male SATA connectors on the
drive).  The adapter that goes the desired direction (IDE drive to SATA)
will have a 40 pin female header and male SATA connectors identical to
those on a SATA drive.

Here's one I found on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/IDE-SATA-Adapter/dp/B000RK89M4

It claims to be bidirectional (stick it on the IDE header on the
motherboard and serve up a SATA port or hang it on the back of an IDE
drive and make it a SATA drive).

There should be other similar but the connectors are the

On 2015-01-08 13:01, David Ritchie 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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