[WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

Motherboards with sata can be had for quite cheap these days (unless you
want to go a crazy upgrade route).
Hth
Al


> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces+amalventano1=tds.net@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+amalventano1=tds.net@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert Piwonka
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:51 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: [WAY OT] SATA & PATA hard drive compatibility
> 
> 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.
> 
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