On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > > It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected > > to SATA adapter with some cable mod or > > some thing like that. Am I correct? > > I don't think so. SATA is very different from PATA. It's similar to > SCSI, hence the use of the SCSI subsystem in Linux. A simple cablemod > won't work.
Such adapters do exist, but they are not simple cables, they contain some logic. How well they work, or whether they require drivers, etc, I'm afraid I don't know. The idea sounds flaky to me, and probably it's best to avoid it... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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