[Discussion] pata to sata adapter

[Thomas Clayton]

Don,

First, is it a PCI to SATA card?

AFAIK, one SATA connector to one SATA device. Period.
No Master nor Slave. 
A PATA device, however, REQUIREs a choice (or Cable Select - CS).
How your PATA to SATA adapter board works, I haven't the foggiest.

I'd suggest a USB to SATA/PATA cable kit from Geeks.com ($~15, max). (They have three types and I'm notifying a friend of mine about them so I'll send a "copy" here, too.)

Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Don Hawkinson <dwhawk at intcon.net> wrote:

> From: Don Hawkinson <dwhawk at intcon.net>
> Subject: [Discussion] pata to sata adapter
> To: "discussion at lists.possi.org" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 9:47 PM
> I bought an adapter board that is supposed to allow a SATA
> drive to be connected to a PATA inteface. There is not a
> jumper
> for setting the drive to  master or slave or cable select. 
>  I have never
> examined a SATA drive, so I do not know if  there needs to
> be one.
> Do SATA drives have a drive select jumper?