[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

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

Foxx (in a box) wrote:

>   i'm sorry for posting this here, but i know there are more that an 
> few people on the list that are more computer literate that i am.
>   i'm looking to get a new hard drive for my computer and would like 
> to upgrade to SATA for future upgradability. problem is that i'm 
> running a board w/o RAID and only standard PATA connections (and win 
> 98se). are SATA drives backwards compatible so that i can run one in 
> my system until i upgrade it or will i have to upgrade the motherboard 
> first? my searches on the internet have been less than helpful. thanx.
>
Don't think it will work.  There are converters to go from an sata mb to 
a pata hard drive but not the other way.  I tried it cause ran out of 
serial connectors, no workie.