<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Paul Cartwright mentioned a similar one. Have you used this type with success?<br><br>I'm not looking for continual access, so slow USB 2.0 is fine - once I've imaged the drive, it goes in the Replay and is running on an IDE controller directly.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com" target="_blank">derek@ihtfp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does it specifically need to be a PATA to SATA adapter?<br>
Could you use a PATA to USB adapter?<br>
Maybe something like:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW</a><br>
<br>
It's $10 from Amazon with Prime shipping. Granted, it's only USB2, not USB3.<br>
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-derek<br>
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On Wed, January 7, 2015 9:23 am, Pete Hardie wrote:<br>
> I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking at<br>
> the<br>
> adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more modern<br>
> systems<br>
> 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<br>
>>> PATA/IDE<br>
>>> interface, I will get one.<br>
>>><br>
>>> TIA for any info/advice<br>
>>><br>
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