They have them that go every which way.... some plug in to the back
of the hard drive, better ones are in a plastic housing and are flush
tight to the PATA drive. Some have adaptors that plug into the PATA
drives and some into the motherboard. Some are PATA to SATA and some
are SATA to PATA. They are not cheap but they are readily
available... as are Promise Ultra 133 controllers.
The first big change you will see as PATA ends it's reign will be
when new PATA drives start getting really expensive, instead of the
other way around. I have all ready noticed this at Newegg. But while
everything new is SATA, for a lot of good reasons, I think PATA will
be supported with adaptors for a few years to come.
As for myself I stopped buying anything PATA three years ago.
At 12:39 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
At 15:52 06/07/2007 -0400, you wrote:
http://www.google.com/products?q=pata+to+sata&scoring=p
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: 07 June 2007 19:48
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] PATA to SATA conectors
Anybody know where I can buy some decent PATA to SATA connectors that
don't cost 20-30 dollars?
Thanks for the link.
Confused a bit. Are these pata-sata adapter cards placed in the m/b
IDE connectors, or, on the back of an IDE hard drive/cdrom (pata?)??
If these are used in the m/b IDE connectors does this not kill the
Master/Slave ability (device pair) of the IDE connector (limiting
the m/b to only 2 hard drives)?
In my area I see regular IDE (not-sata) HDs getting tough to
find. Hope regular ATA100/133 IDE HDs do not go obsolete any time
soon...........
Best,
Duncan
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