IDE Hard Drives
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Morning All. I have a bunch of archaic equipment that I manage that uses hard drives with IDE/PATA interfaces. Obviously these are getting hard to find so I'd like to find a reliable IDE to SATA interface. If anyone has an idea of one that works well, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
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Morning All. I have a bunch of archaic equipment that I manage that uses hard drives with IDE/PATA interfaces. Obviously these are getting hard to find so I'd like to find a reliable IDE to SATA interface. If anyone has an idea of one that works well, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
I don't think you'll have much joy with PATA<->SATA. I suggest you try for USB to PATA. I've used a couple of no-name ones successfully.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Morning All. I have a bunch of archaic equipment that I manage that uses hard drives with IDE/PATA interfaces. Obviously these are getting hard to find so I'd like to find a reliable IDE to SATA interface. If anyone has an idea of one that works well, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
Amazon sell them: Amazon.co.uk : IDE to SATA Converter[^] But ... You'd probably be better off junking them: the youngest IDE HDD drive is probably around 15 years old, so the MB's you are trying to connect your new SATA drives to are going to be pretty aged, and may not like your new drives that much anyway. Remember that many IDE motherboards didn't support HDDs bigger than 30GB without BIOS patches, and the smallest SATA you will find is way bigger than that! There were problems with larger drives with various older OSes as well.
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Morning All. I have a bunch of archaic equipment that I manage that uses hard drives with IDE/PATA interfaces. Obviously these are getting hard to find so I'd like to find a reliable IDE to SATA interface. If anyone has an idea of one that works well, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
Hmmm...you've just reminded me I have a box full of old drives, some IDE, that I should probably hook up to a system, copy whatever might still exist on them (if worthwhile, and I don't have any other copy of), then run through DBAN. At this point, it's not worth hanging on to hardware so old it's getting difficult to hook up to newer systems.
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I don't think you'll have much joy with PATA<->SATA. I suggest you try for USB to PATA. I've used a couple of no-name ones successfully.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Hmmm...you've just reminded me I have a box full of old drives, some IDE, that I should probably hook up to a system, copy whatever might still exist on them (if worthwhile, and I don't have any other copy of), then run through DBAN. At this point, it's not worth hanging on to hardware so old it's getting difficult to hook up to newer systems.
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Amazon sell them: Amazon.co.uk : IDE to SATA Converter[^] But ... You'd probably be better off junking them: the youngest IDE HDD drive is probably around 15 years old, so the MB's you are trying to connect your new SATA drives to are going to be pretty aged, and may not like your new drives that much anyway. Remember that many IDE motherboards didn't support HDDs bigger than 30GB without BIOS patches, and the smallest SATA you will find is way bigger than that! There were problems with larger drives with various older OSes as well.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just dug up the box. These are the IDE drives I have: - 40GB - 80GB (x2) - 120GB (x3) - 160GB - 200GB As I mentioned, I'd run them through DBAN first. As far as I can remember, they were all working last time I tried to use them. Which was probably years ago. I can't imagine cost of shipping would make them worth it. What would you do with them?
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I just dug up the box. These are the IDE drives I have: - 40GB - 80GB (x2) - 120GB (x3) - 160GB - 200GB As I mentioned, I'd run them through DBAN first. As far as I can remember, they were all working last time I tried to use them. Which was probably years ago. I can't imagine cost of shipping would make them worth it. What would you do with them?
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I have a lot of IDE drives too. When I want to connect them to modern PC I use something similar to that (old version for SATA1) also from StarTech. Never had corruption or other types of problems but never used it full time. Maybe the one you had working for a couple of weeks overheated and burned something? StarTech boards usually work OK but read all the documentation and the fine printing on their site before you buy to make sure it is compatible. Some years ago I bought a rather expensive softraid controller from them that worked fine until I changed the motherboard (same year/chipset but different manufacturer). It stop working and had a major caveat. It only works if the MMU setting on the BIOS is disabled (which the "new" motherboard does not support disabling) :wtf:
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Some of these systems don't even have functional running USB connections. :-\ I don't think I could get them to boot from them, but thanks for the idea. I might have a couple I can try it on. :)
Sorry, on reflection I realise I misunderstood your question. I thought you were trying to read old drives pulled from those systems (the kind of thing I do all the time).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have a lot of IDE drives too. When I want to connect them to modern PC I use something similar to that (old version for SATA1) also from StarTech. Never had corruption or other types of problems but never used it full time. Maybe the one you had working for a couple of weeks overheated and burned something? StarTech boards usually work OK but read all the documentation and the fine printing on their site before you buy to make sure it is compatible. Some years ago I bought a rather expensive softraid controller from them that worked fine until I changed the motherboard (same year/chipset but different manufacturer). It stop working and had a major caveat. It only works if the MMU setting on the BIOS is disabled (which the "new" motherboard does not support disabling) :wtf:
