[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 09:50:45 EST 2015


Yep - talking down to old drives, as opposed to running new drive in old
cases.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> So the other way around
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I doubt I can fit the adapter into the ReplayTV case, so I'm looking at
>> the adapter more to allow me to load the PATA drive from my more modern
>> systems that
>> have SATA controllers
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is PATA to SATA will give you significant speed increase or just
>>> convinience of using HDD that are more common today?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone had experience with such a device?  I have to replace a drive on
>>>> my ReplayTV box, which uses IDE
>>>> drives only, and while I have an old desktop which still uses PATA, I
>>>> will probably forget this fact and toss it out at siome point.
>>>>
>>>> ​What I need to be able to do is load the IDE drive via dd, and if the
>>>> SATA:PATA adapter allows that as if the drive be controlled via a PATA/IDE
>>>> interface, I will get one.
>>>>
>>>> TIA for any info/advice​
>>>>
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