[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

[t.piwonka at ttu.edu (Robert Piwonka)]

oh never seen those.  I was trying it with the included adapter for my 
nf7-s which was not bi-directional, but if you have to buy something to 
get sata working on your board might as well get a sata pci raid card 
they are chaap like 20 bucks.  I got one of these cause needed more hd's 
and it works well.
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020>

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>     Don't think it will work.  There are converters to go from an sata
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>     a pata hard drive but not the other way.  I tried it cause ran out of
>     serial connectors, no workie.
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> http://www.cooldrives.com/saidecomisat.html
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> Just one example that 15 seconds with google found me. A bunch more 
> are there too.  There was a lot of discussion about this in computer 
> geek circles when sata came out, and the converters were out almost 
> immediately.
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