paul
iam using following converter
http://4dimpex.tradeindia.com/Exporters_Suppliers/Exporter13641.196257/IDE-to-SATA-Converter.html
but it looks like not problem with converter. because there are no
jumpers nothing in it.
it is pretty state farward, it has two tabs one for ide to sata, other
for sata to id and one more for power supply to adaptor.
most of the people suggesting that it is problem with motherboard, to
resolve this i need to instal the sata updation driver for my mother
board (intel D845GLAD). iam not able to find approprite driver for my
motherboard. please help me in finding right driver for my mother
board.
That adapter is similar to the Koutech ASA-220. One SATA connector is labeled
"SATA host" and you don't want to use that one. The other one would be
for your SATA disk.
Connect the adapter to the end of the ribbon cable. Don't have any other
drive connected to the same ribbon. The connection would look like
this. Also, try to use a 80 wire ribbon cable (the one with the
thinner wire). Ribbon cables come in two general types, some
with 40 wires, and some with 80 thinner wires. The 80 wire cable
is preferred, and likely supports cable_select as a choice.
X --- "SATA Host"\
\___ IDE ____+ (ribbon cable)
SATA_Hard_Drive --- "SATA Disk" / |
|
+ (no drive on middle connector)
|
|
X Motherboard IDE connector
The ICH4 Southbridge chip has two IDE ribbon cable interfaces. There
will be no SATA driver for such a chip. So that is not a solution.
A SATA driver will not install, because the numeric enumeration
of the driver will not match the hardware.
A potential issue, is whether the D845GLAD motherboard supports
hard drives larger than 137GB. That is called support for
"48 bit LBA". The Intel manual is dated Mar 4, 2002, while motherboards
generally became compliant around 2003. You could try testing with
an 80GB SATA or 120GB SATA drive, to see if that is the problem.
I don't know what symptoms to expect with a 48 bit LBA drive and
a 28 bit capable motherboard. (The 28 bits are used to address
a particular 512 byte sector.) In some cases, updating the BIOS
may make a difference (check the release notes for the BIOS,
to see if one BIOS release introduced large drive support).
Make sure the adapter has its power cable connected, as well as
the disk drive having its power cable connected.
That is about all I can suggest. It doesn't look like the adapter
has Master/Slave/Cable_Select options, which means the adapter
may be Cable_Select (so you could use two adapters on the same
cable), or the adapter could be Master. If the adapter is set
up to be Master, that means two adapters cannot be used on the
same cable. That is why, for the drawing above, I recommend a
single adapter for your first test.
Paul
