[ILUG] IDE in a SATA-only box

Brendan Kehoe brendan at zen.org
Fri Jun 15 11:32:30 IST 2007


I've got a new system with SATA for disks, but would like to be able to
use the two 500Gb IDE disks left from the now-deceased predecessor. 
I've got a Promise TX2 Ultra133 PCI card, but that doesn't seem to
co-exist will in the BIOS with the SATA AHCI the BIOS also needs to load up.

I'm going to keep trying to figure out a way to fix the card problem
(it's dated 2001, whether that matters or not).

I've not had much luck finding a IDE->SATA adapter, but plenty of the
reverse.  So my next thoughts are either a USB2 external enclosure that
can hold *2* disks, or stack two of those if I have to.

Don't suppose one of you have already done this little exercise,
perchance? :)

Thanks,
B




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