[ale] old newbie

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 12/25/2010 8:25 PM, John Mills wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>> On 12/25/2010 06:20 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>>> Hello alers,
>    ...
>>> ... For instance, one can hardly get a
>>> motherboard that has IDE ports on it. Some may have only one. What to
>>> do with my IDE harddrives. and dvd burners, let alone my SCSI
>>> equipment? I have to get all SATA or USB? Even my 2006 Scott Mueller
>>> book  (Upgrading and Repairing PC's) is out of date. Are there
>>> adapters for IDE to SATA  for example. Is there anyone with similar
>>> problems or is there a good site for old newbie's like me?
> I bought a SATA<->  IDE in-line converter from Frys. It's intended to
> occupy (hog?) one IDE port and provide one SATA drop, or vice-versa. I
> haven't tried it yet.  It plugs into the MB IDE port, or the drive's IDE
> receptacle, with a SATA cable making up the other leg. There's a switch to
> set directionality. The model I bought draws power from the MB on a small,
> separate connector.
>
> I'm walking the other side of this: newer drives with an old MB.
>
>    - Mills
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I've had good luck with the following:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0267067

I have 3 of them on DVD burners in different machines, all work great.  
Have burnt dozens if not hundreds of DVDs through these adapters.  Like 
you, during my last upgrade IDE ports were no more.  I was quite partial 
to these NEC burners and wasn't willing to replace them just yet.