techie help - Serial ATA SATA to EIDE/IDE Hard Drive Mini Adapter Converter - will this work for me?

[Mary Fowler Leek]

http://www.xpcgear.com/ide2sata.html

Serial ATA SATA to EIDE/IDE Hard Drive (HDD) and Optical Drive Mini Adapter Converter with Y-Power Cable (Retail)


Features:
This SATA Serial ATA to IDE Ultra ATA-133 Converter Board is a converter solution for the Parallel Ultra ATA Devices. It has a standard 40 pin ATA port can interface to a parallel Ultra ATA (IDE) devices (such as Hard Disk, DVD-Rom, DVD+-R/W, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, MO, ..). It accepts SATA commands through the Serial ATA interface from the host, decodes the commands and converts them to parallel ATA commands to the device. Response from the device through the parallel ATA bus are deciphered, processed and converted to SATA protocol and sent to the host.


One more question, please, and I think I'll be ready to make my move.

I recently purchased a new computer. Didn't plan on it so didn't do my research before the purchase, as I usually do. We live in a rural area and it's a looonnnng trip to see, purchase, etc. Now I have it home and realize it uses a serial ATA drive, with additional ATA connectors on the MB. Only one IDE connector, which will be required for the two DVD R/W drives.

I recently purchased and installed new IDE drives for my old computer. I'd like to have the use of these drives in the new computer. One I can use in the external USB IDE kit but I need an additional slave hd, coming off of the MO, for use with video editing. I don't think USB 2.0 is fast enough for video work.

Would you techies please check the above information and tell me if this will work in my situation? It sounds like it just attaches to the back of the IDE hard drive, where the ribbon cable would normally attach? Then an ATA cable (very nice and small btw) would connect to the mother board and to this adapter?

My thanks for your assistance.


~Mary
mleek at arkwest dot com
mmleek at hotmail dot com

 

[Guest]

SATA drives dont use 40 or 80 pin connectors they use a 7 pin connector to
connect drive to mb controller.If you have what Abit came out with a
Serillel2
Serial ATA connector,first pitch the 40 wire and switch to 80.second,those
adapters
are quite worthless,its suppose to run with a cdrom,or dvd,or hard drive,but
its performance sucks....

 

[Yves Leclerc]

It would be better to buy a PCI IDE controller than to rely on a SATA to IDE
convertor.


http://www.xpcgear.com/ide2sata.html

Serial ATA SATA to EIDE/IDE Hard Drive (HDD) and Optical Drive Mini Adapter
Converter with Y-Power Cable (Retail)


Features:
This SATA Serial ATA to IDE Ultra ATA-133 Converter Board is a
converter solution for the Parallel Ultra ATA Devices. It has a standard 40
pin ATA port can interface to a parallel Ultra ATA (IDE) devices (such as
Hard Disk, DVD-Rom, DVD+-R/W, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, MO, ..). It accepts
SATA commands through the Serial ATA interface from the host, decodes the
commands and converts them to parallel ATA commands to the device. Response
from the device through the parallel ATA bus are deciphered, processed and
converted to SATA protocol and sent to the host.


One more question, please, and I think I'll be ready to make my move.

I recently purchased a new computer. Didn't plan on it so didn't do my
research before the purchase, as I usually do. We live in a rural area and
it's a looonnnng trip to see, purchase, etc. Now I have it home and realize
it uses a serial ATA drive, with additional ATA connectors on the MB. Only
one IDE connector, which will be required for the two DVD R/W drives.

I recently purchased and installed new IDE drives for my old computer. I'd
like to have the use of these drives in the new computer. One I can use in
the external USB IDE kit but I need an additional slave hd, coming off of
the MO, for use with video editing. I don't think USB 2.0 is fast enough for
video work.

Would you techies please check the above information and tell me if this
will work in my situation? It sounds like it just attaches to the back of
the IDE hard drive, where the ribbon cable would normally attach? Then an
ATA cable (very nice and small btw) would connect to the mother board and to
this adapter?

My thanks for your assistance.


~Mary
mleek at arkwest dot com
mmleek at hotmail dot com

 

[Mary Fowler Leek]

I don't think I'll have enough PCI slots free, but if so, thanks for the excellent suggestion.

Mary

: It would be better to buy a PCI IDE controller than to rely on a SATA to IDE
: convertor.
:
:
: : http://www.xpcgear.com/ide2sata.html
:
: Serial ATA SATA to EIDE/IDE Hard Drive (HDD) and Optical Drive Mini Adapter
: Converter with Y-Power Cable (Retail)
:
:
: Features:
: This SATA Serial ATA to IDE Ultra ATA-133 Converter Board is a
: converter solution for the Parallel Ultra ATA Devices. It has a standard 40
: pin ATA port can interface to a parallel Ultra ATA (IDE) devices (such as
: Hard Disk, DVD-Rom, DVD+-R/W, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-RW, MO, ..). It accepts
: SATA commands through the Serial ATA interface from the host, decodes the
: commands and converts them to parallel ATA commands to the device. Response
: from the device through the parallel ATA bus are deciphered, processed and
: converted to SATA protocol and sent to the host.
:
:
: One more question, please, and I think I'll be ready to make my move.
:
: I recently purchased a new computer. Didn't plan on it so didn't do my
: research before the purchase, as I usually do. We live in a rural area and
: it's a looonnnng trip to see, purchase, etc. Now I have it home and realize
: it uses a serial ATA drive, with additional ATA connectors on the MB. Only
: one IDE connector, which will be required for the two DVD R/W drives.
:
: I recently purchased and installed new IDE drives for my old computer. I'd
: like to have the use of these drives in the new computer. One I can use in
: the external USB IDE kit but I need an additional slave hd, coming off of
: the MO, for use with video editing. I don't think USB 2.0 is fast enough for
: video work.
:
: Would you techies please check the above information and tell me if this
: will work in my situation? It sounds like it just attaches to the back of
: the IDE hard drive, where the ribbon cable would normally attach? Then an
: ATA cable (very nice and small btw) would connect to the mother board and to
: this adapter?
:
: My thanks for your assistance.
:
:
: ~Mary
: mleek at arkwest dot com
: mmleek at hotmail dot com
:
:
: