[ale] PATA to SATA adapters?

[Alex Carver]

That one goes the wrong direction.  He needs to hook an IDE/PATA drive
to a SATA controller.  The one in the link is to hook a SATA drive to an
IDE/PATA controller.

On 2015-01-07 20:36, David Ritchie wrote:
> Fry's has small one that will fit on the back of a drive - look for SATA
> cables and they are on  the same aisle (in Milton).
> 
> 5983774 -- SATA to PATA HARD-DRIVE ADAPTER
> http://www.frys.com/product/5983774?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
> $16.99 - There may be other mail order places that are cheaper..
> 
> -- David
> 
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That's another good idea.  I will keep that in mind as a fallback plan
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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​
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Pete Hardie
>>>>>>>> --------
>>>>>>>> Better Living Through Bitmaps