<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">That's another good idea. I will keep that in mind as a fallback plan<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Get a USB case. I have a couple adapters to do exactly what you're<br>
trying to do (run an IDE drive in a SATA-only system) but I haven't<br>
tried them yet. I do have several USB-IDE cases that I use for various<br>
things (I still have six machines with IDE drives) and have no problem<br>
using dd/rsync or anything else.<br>
<br>
Is your IDE drive a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch? I actually picked up two<br>
USB-IDE 2.5-inch external cases from Fry's for less than $10 each. One<br>
is actively running right now as the primary drive for my RPi mail<br>
server (I have a pile of 2.50-inch drives laying around).<br>
<br>
I have also seen cabled adapters that have no housing. It's just the<br>
bare IDE connector with a USB cable hanging off of it.<br>
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On 2015-01-07 06:50, Pete Hardie wrote:<br>
> Yep - talking down to old drives, as opposed to running new drive in old<br>
> cases.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> So the other way around<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking at<br>
>>> the adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more modern<br>
>>> systems that<br>
>>> have SATA controllers<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Is PATA to SATA will give you significant speed increase or just<br>
>>>> convinience of using HDD that are more common today?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Anyone had experience with such a device? I have to replace a drive on<br>
>>>>> my ReplayTV box, which uses IDE<br>
>>>>> drives only, and while I have an old desktop which still uses PATA, I<br>
>>>>> will probably forget this fact and toss it out at siome point.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> What I need to be able to do is load the IDE drive via dd, and if the<br>
>>>>> SATA:PATA adapter allows that as if the drive be controlled via a PATA/IDE<br>
>>>>> interface, I will get one.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> TIA for any info/advice<br>
>>>>><br>
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