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Reporting back on cheap PATA to SATA converters bought on eBay fromHong Kong
I paid less than $10 for four of these puppies, delivered, including
four SATA cables and adapters to convert four-wire IDE power connectors to four-wire floppy connectors to power the PATA to SATA converters. These adapters allow connecting parallel drives to serial ports on the mb. Conclusion: They work pretty good, but I noticed one minor glitch. With a CDRW drive connected with one of these pups I was able to install XP without a hitch, but I was not able to use the WD Data Lifeguard Tools CD to partition, format, etc, but the XP disk does all that stuff. The WD disk uses Caldera Dr. DOS to boot up. I am not sure if the adapters were at fault or some other reason. I got the following: Driver not found: generic NWCDEX.EXE requires a driver name to be specified Command or filename not recognized It might be that this disc would not work in an SATA CD drive, but I don't know. This WD disk was shipped before SATA drives existed. The disk DID boot through the IDE connector on the mother board, so the disk is okay. After I installed XP with the C: drive connected to the IDE connector on the MB I reconnected the C: drive to an SATA port through the cheap adapter and the system booted up and ran with no problems. On these WD drives these adapters prefer no jumpers, which is how WD says they should be configured when using them as a single drive on a dual IDE channel That's all folks |
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Reporting back on cheap PATA to SATA converters bought on eBay fromHong Kong
In article , Jack wrote:
I paid less than $10 for four of these puppies, delivered, including four SATA cables and adapters to convert four-wire IDE power connectors to four-wire floppy connectors to power the PATA to SATA converters. These adapters allow connecting parallel drives to serial ports on the mb. Conclusion: They work pretty good, but I noticed one minor glitch. With a CDRW drive connected with one of these pups I was able to install XP without a hitch, but I was not able to use the WD Data Lifeguard Tools CD to partition, format, etc, but the XP disk does all that stuff. The WD disk uses Caldera Dr. DOS to boot up. I am not sure if the adapters were at fault or some other reason. I got the following: Driver not found: generic NWCDEX.EXE requires a driver name to be specified Command or filename not recognized It might be that this disc would not work in an SATA CD drive, but I don't know. This WD disk was shipped before SATA drives existed. The disk DID boot through the IDE connector on the mother board, so the disk is okay. After I installed XP with the C: drive connected to the IDE connector on the MB I reconnected the C: drive to an SATA port through the cheap adapter and the system booted up and ran with no problems. On these WD drives these adapters prefer no jumpers, which is how WD says they should be configured when using them as a single drive on a dual IDE channel That's all folks Generally you dont want to use those IDE to SATA adapters with optical disks. They are meant for Hard disks. |
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Reporting back on cheap PATA to SATA converters bought on eBayfrom Hong Kong
On Mar 10, 12:10 pm, (GMAN) wrote:
Generally you dont want to use those IDE to SATA adapters with optical disks. They are meant for Hard disks. Yep -- sounds reasonable for horse shoes with hand grenades. Have some little adapters in their boxes I haven't tried on old PATA, 3 or 4 Seagate 200/250M units, built back in Seagate's better days. Going on eight years old -- throw those non-SeaSnakes from the porch to street and they're guaranteed to still work. One of which, back in early INT 13H addressing schemes, came packaged w/ a PCI Promise dedicated controller for controller contingencies. Controller City here -- ASUS MB, alone w/ 3 controller chipsets -- IDE, SATA/RAID, as well another controller IDE chipset, though I forget exactly what it does. MB's earlier SATA compliance for most newer drives it won't recognize. Plus that PATA Promise and another Syba SATA -- both PCI. Actually, Kludge City, depending on id-ing drivers and the BIOS config. Anyway, the PCI controllers will work with optical drives, though specifically stated that they're not so intended. Same deal w/ boot/ driver issues -&- BIOS (need be on a correct MB port, driver & BIOS settings, to boot optically). But, while running up to 4 DVDs, who cares. . . well, until the crashes come. Nasty ones. First power on to boot, it's OK. Do all the work I need with mass copying on 4 DVDs, although later on, best watch out. If the computer is left running weeks on end, and I go to say NERO, or just to access a DVD drive -- POW, system just may reset itself. Did that one time with a 1T formatted NTFS connected via a USB port. Crashed, hosed the HD, which took a week with some good data recovery software (which only operates at a rudimentary command level or Safe Boot) for regaining a lost NTFS drive. I still "push it," but always now from a clean hard boot, if not OS restoration, no NTFS if possible, and fully powered down, so the optical drives can "settle in." Carefully, being out of specs, and never randomly accessing opticals after the system has been up long enough to lay its minefield. Couple more boxes of DVDs to move and I'll be and back to normal. Done and won't need to Promise anymore. |
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