[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

Tue Jan 13 09:02:04 EST 2015

Ok, the followup to all this

I got a $10 SATA/IDE to USB adapter cable from Microcenter (open box -
regularly $14), and was able to image the drive from my F15 desktopm but
the Fedroa laptop I had would not recognize the USB drive at boot, so I
ended up resurrecting a XP box to hook it up to and finish setting up the
drive.  It was successful.

Thanks for all the pointers and advice.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> 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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