[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 23:00:07 EST 2015


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​
> >>>>>
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