[Discussion] pata to sata adapter

[Ray Davison]

Don Hawkinson wrote:
> 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?

There is no master or slave on SATA; one connector to one device.  I 
think the BIOS calls them master.

I have PATA HDDs and Zip drives running on adapters on SATA connectors. 
  I have four different kinds of adapters.  Two of them work, and two do 
not.

Ray