[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

[kjbrosha at gmail.com (Kevin Brosha)]

 On 10/12/05, Robert Piwonka <t.piwonka@ttu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

 http://www.cooldrives.com/saidecomisat.html
 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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