<div dir="ltr">Alex,<div> good catch. What about this: </div><div> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400465&cm_re=SATA_to_IDE-_-12-400-465-_-Product">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400465&cm_re=SATA_to_IDE-_-12-400-465-_-Product</a> looks what is needed to hook SATA drives to IDE systems. $24.95 <div><br></div><div>-- David </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:53 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">That one goes the wrong direction. He needs to hook an IDE/PATA drive<br>
to a SATA controller. The one in the link is to hook a SATA drive to an<br>
IDE/PATA controller.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 2015-01-07 20:36, David Ritchie wrote:<br>
> Fry's has small one that will fit on the back of a drive - look for SATA<br>
> cables and they are on the same aisle (in Milton).<br>
><br>
> 5983774 -- SATA to PATA HARD-DRIVE ADAPTER<br>
> <a href="http://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG" target="_blank">http://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG</a><br>
> $16.99 - There may be other mail order places that are cheaper..<br>
><br>
> -- David<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> That's another good idea. I will keep that in mind as a fallback plan<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> 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>
>>><br>
>>> 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>><br>
>>> 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>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>> I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking<br>
>>> at<br>
>>>>>> the adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more<br>
>>> 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>><br>
>>> 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<br>
>>> drive on<br>
>>>>>>>> my ReplayTV box, which uses IDE<br>
>>>>>>>> drives only, and while I have an old desktop which still uses PATA,<br>
>>> 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<br>
>>> 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>
>>>>>>>> --<br>
>>>>>>>> Pete Hardie<br>
>>>>>>>> --------<br>
>>>>>>>> Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>
<br>
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