A7N8X-E deluxe: what IDE-SATA adapter dongles are compatible?

[Jeffrey Morse]

I've been having some trouble with one brand of these, the
Cables Unlimited FLT-7000-B, which don't seem to work well
with the SiI 3112 RAID controllers on this MB. I've had one
HD go bad on me with them in there, and another one became
undetectable in Windows the morning after I had it installed,
ran it for a few minutes, then shut down the system for the
night.

I've looked at Newegg, and they have the Highpoint, GWC and
Abit ones (the Abits are out of stock right now). I also
went to the Asus site, and they have a IDE-SATA adapter
that says it is compatible with the P4PE, A7V8X, P4SDX,
and P4S8X motherboards. Has anyone used this one
successfully with an IDE drive on the A7N8X-E deluxe?
I did read somewhere that the Abit one is compatible with
the SiI 3112A RAID controllers.

The drive that went bad was a 250 GB WD2500PB ATA100
that was a second RMA (recertified) replacement, while
the more recent one is a Maxtor 250 GB ATA133. I
originally had that one in an external firewire
enclosure, and I put it back in there again, and it
spun up and was detected by Windows. So I'm out only
a pair of $27.99 SATA adapter dongles, and not a
$200 hard drive.

Would I be better off getting a native SATA hard
drive (when I need the storage), and leaving the
Maxtor in the enclosure, or using one of
the other brands of adapters to try running it
from the SATA RAID 1 port again?

 

[peter]

Personal opinion is that you would be better off getting a SATA HD.......their
costs have actually gone down.
200GB for $150.00 Canadian bucks........thats what....100.00 US??
http://www.anitec.ca/?mode=product_detail&mpid=2629&pid=1949
peter