On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:17:13PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > 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...
Followup: Just come across a couple of these in a dead-tree catalogue. They don't require any drivers. One of them claims to support "IDE hard drives, CD drives etc." up to ATA133; the other (slightly more expensive!) says it's compatible with ATA133 drives ONLY, which is something to beware of. -- 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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