Anyone running IDE to SATA Adapters??

[Ducatti20]

Considering canning my IDE 133 expansion card (write delay's and errors) and going to some IDE to SATA adapters... anyone running this and anyone having problems??

[808smokey]

Never thought of it but here's what I found:

An easy way to connect an IDE hard drive and a Serial ATA hard drive in one computer
Allows a fast data transfer rate of up to 150 MBytes/sec
Supports plug and play installation
Hot swap capabilities allows you to add or remove devices without turning off your computer
Supports up to 2 channels and 2 devices
Accepts Serial ATA commands and then converts them to IDE device commands
Supports most ATAPI devices (CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM and other devices)

I'd do it if I had a SATA

[Ducatti20]

Yeah, I've found a few different adapters out there.. I get a read/write error with my expansion card (3rd card/brand) and was hoping someone had tried SATA adapters out.. I'll probably just buy 1 and see how it does

[DeadLamb]

I get a read/write error with my expansion card (3rd card/brand)

yeah I ran into the same thing when I upgraded.. so being my Intel 875 board had on board SATA I just bought two of those cheapy ($20-$25) rockethead converters..

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/accessory.htm

zero probs... still boot off the main IDE so no idea if you can run the SATA as a boot but for simple extra drives they are really ez.. just plug the rocketheads into the back of the IDE drives, little power connection and that's about it.. as I said, zero problems..

run IDE1 as bootdrive and game drive, IDE2 as DVD-r and my DVD-rom.. SATA1 as 160gig ripping/dl drive and SATA2 as a music drive..

cheaper then a higher end PCI controler card anyways.. I picked them up at Frys and outpost.com lists them too.. But of course, this being the net, no idea if that store is an option to ya.

[Ducatti20]

Deadlamb, by chance did you format the 160GB drive using the adapter?? Or your secondary?? I've seen formatting issues with 80 GB and above using expansion cards

[DeadLamb]

Deadlamb, by chance did you format the 160GB drive using the adapter?? Or your secondary?? I've seen formatting issues with 80 GB and above using expansion cards

ah geesh, sorry I did not check back in here for the post... errrr almost a month later I get see this thread again. whoops. Sure ya have already solved your problems..

anyways.. just in case some searches for info and find this later might as well still reply..

When I formated the 160 system drive I had to use the junky (did not know it was junky at the time) expansion card being I only have Xp with out SP1. Sooooo I can't format over 120gig at the start being I have to install, THEN patch up to SP1 to get the bigger drive support. Well there are ways around that with like partition magic etc but I did not want to do that..

so I formated and installed XP by way of the expansion card, patched up to SP1 (getting larger HD support) and then moved the 160 drive from the card to IDE 1 for a boot drive.. Then threw the drives I already had data on to the card for the extra IDE channels I needed..

So in the end the drive that was getting the errors was not even formated with the card.. sigh.. Once I got it off that card it's been fine. The drive formated with the card? Zero problems with it right up till the cpu got surged I think, making it fail on a hardware level. Can't really blame that on anything sep dirty bad power..

My errors with the expansion card might of just been an the 875 Intel board and the card not liking each other? Odds are it's really just the cheap TX expansion cards or whatever it called card being junk. Many of my friends have had the same coruption issue with drives running on those cheap sort of expansion cards.. Nice of them to let me know AFTER I have the problem