| SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter | 
| Brand: Generic
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $2.25
as of 9/6/2010 14:11 CDT details
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Seller: importer520
Rating:  39 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4 x 0.5
UPC: 837654148396
EAN: 0837654148396
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Connects a SATA hard drive to a computer with a PATA/ATA/IDE/EIDE interface. | | • | Supports ATA 100/133 | | • | 1 x SATA port (power and data), 1 x PATA port (40-pin IDE), 1 4-pin power connector (Molex) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Convert IDE/PATA and SATA hard drive interfaces for use with older/newer computer systems. Adapter has female SATA power and data connectors, and male IDE/Molex data and power connectors.
Note: adapters of this type CAN NOT be used with external hard drive enclosures, it WILL NOT FIT. Don't forget to adjust your BIOS settings to detect the adapted hard drive! You may need extra cables not included with this product.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 39
 Works perfectly September 6, 2010
Jimm
Ineeded an adapter for a new hard drive for an old computer and this was a cheap and effective solution.
Worked like a CHARM!! August 23, 2010
Xijilia
Popped this in and ran Ghost with no trouble whatsoever. Fit nicely in a tower PC. Used w/ a 500 GB Western Digital SATA and Ghosted from a 500GB failing IDE. This is also simple way to use a SATA in an older machine w/o buying a SATA controller.
This device is a little delicate so make sure to connect IDE data & power to card 1st then attach it to your SATA drive so you don't damage the card or your drive connections. And if you plan to leave it in place to run try to find some kind of rubber spacer to keep the card from flexing and stressing the SATA connection on the drive.
 It does not support DMA and has VERY slow transfers as a result. August 22, 2010
M. Merlin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tried 2 of them on 2 different PCs with 2 different high capacity drives. The results are the same:
1) competing IDE to SATA converter gives good speed:
magic:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 118 MB in 3.04 seconds = 38.78 MB/sec
2) This converter gives very slow speeds in PIO 5 mode:
magic:~# hdparm -p 5 /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
attempting to set PIO mode to 5
magic:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.32 seconds = 2.41 MB/sec
3) When I enable DMA, it's slightly faster
magic:~# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
magic:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.04 seconds = 14.46 MB/sec
But DMA mode, as slow as it is, is also unstable on both my machines and I have to turn it off:
kernel: hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
kernel: hdc: DMA timeout error
kernel: hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
kernel: ide1: reset: success
I get the same exact errors with 2 of those adapters on 2 different PCs, so it's not a one off
problem, a bad machine, or a bad cable.
SATA to PATA with old Compaq S3100NX WIndows XP + Ubuntu Linux 10.04 August 18, 2010
Daniel P. Taylor
My S3100NX desktop is set up as dual-boot with Win XP and Ubuntu Linux 10.04. My original drive was developing a pretty loud wine so I got a WD 160GB Sata Drive with a Syba SD-VIA-1A1E1S SATA PCI controller. Unfortunately the Syba controller didn't seem to get along with my BIOS as it crippled my ability to boot from CD, so I sent it back. The SATA controller BIOS had no options for fixing this as far as I could see. So, I got this SATA to IDE converter instead. I would have done this first, but I feared that my BIOS would not be able to break thru the 120GB barrier and I thought that a controller with its own BIOS would be the best course of action. Anyway, I put in this converter instead and it wasn't a problem. The computer addresses the full 160GB, Linux boots in 37 seconds instead of 60 seconds, Win XP is faster to boot also (save 30 secs), and I get a slot back. Also, when I was trying to get the new PCI controller to work, I had another compatibility problem with XP not being able to boot the hard drive and I suspect it was because the supplied AHCI driver was just not working. But with the SATA drive on the IDE controller, it works seamlessly without the need for an AHCI driver. Summary: If you want a SATA drive on an old Windows XP computer, this adapter is more compatible, works fine and costs less than a SATA controller.
Didn't work for me August 16, 2010
Grandpa
FYI, I purchased a Samsung DVD writer (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HFWBIA/ref=oss_product) and this interface card and tried to install the Samsung using this device in my eMachines T3302 desktop running the latest version of Windows XP.
My machine did not recognize that a device was there; I tried everything I knew to no avail. Whether it was this interface card, the machine (four years old) or the DVD unit I haven't a clue. I had no way to test the Samsung as I do not have access to a SATA-native machine.
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