<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Ok, the followup to all this<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for all the pointers and advice.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:12 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">Same thing, it takes a SATA drive and turns it into an IDE/PATA<br>
compatible unit. The giveaway is the 40 pin male header and the SATA<br>
connector being female (to mate with the male SATA connectors on the<br>
drive). The adapter that goes the desired direction (IDE drive to SATA)<br>
will have a 40 pin female header and male SATA connectors identical to<br>
those on a SATA drive.<br>
<br>
Here's one I found on Amazon:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/IDE-SATA-Adapter/dp/B000RK89M4" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/IDE-SATA-Adapter/dp/B000RK89M4</a><br>
<br>
It claims to be bidirectional (stick it on the IDE header on the<br>
motherboard and serve up a SATA port or hang it on the back of an IDE<br>
drive and make it a SATA drive).<br>
<br>
There should be other similar but the connectors are the<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 2015-01-08 13:01, David Ritchie wrote:<br>
> Alex,<br>
> good catch. What about this:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400465&cm_re=SATA_to_IDE-_-12-400-465-_-Product" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400465&cm_re=SATA_to_IDE-_-12-400-465-_-Product</a><br>
> looks what is needed to hook SATA drives to IDE systems. $24.95<br>
><br>
> -- David<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> 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>
>><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>><br>
>> 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<br>
>> 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>
>>><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<br>
>> 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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