[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[Alex Carver]

Get a USB case.  I have a couple adapters to do exactly what you're
trying to do (run an IDE drive in a SATA-only system) but I haven't
tried them yet.  I do have several USB-IDE cases that I use for various
things (I still have six machines with IDE drives) and have no problem
using dd/rsync or anything else.

Is your IDE drive a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch?  I actually picked up two
USB-IDE 2.5-inch external cases from Fry's for less than $10 each.  One
is actively running right now as the primary drive for my RPi mail
server (I have a pile of 2.50-inch drives laying around).

I have also seen cabled adapters that have no housing.  It's just the
bare IDE connector with a USB cable hanging off of it.

On 2015-01-07 06:50, Pete Hardie wrote:
> 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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