Serail ATA drive to IDE Bus
We now have an IDE to Serial ATA converter. The naming convention can be confusing, but now we have both solutions. Connecting a Serial ATA drive to an IDE motherboard, or connecting an IDE drive to a SATA motherboard. (which we have had for some time)
Our SATA to IDE has been a popular product, for those who are connecting and IDE Drive to their new SATA motherboard, however its harder to find an adapter for a SATA drive to an IDE interface.
There is a lot of demand for these adapters, from Hard drive Cloning, data recovery, or if you just found a great deal on a large capacity drive, but don’t want to upgrade your motherboard.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:48 am
The terminology of these products is indeed confusing, not least when some UK sellers have the description of one item both ways around on the same page, without giving a clue what it will actually do.
At last, a site with some clear explanations, though I am still unsure whether putting a SATA controller card into my old, entirely PATA PC will allow me to attach (externally- no room inside)a new SATA drive and use it.