On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:53:05 +0200, SharkD <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Any benefits of using an adapter for my old PATA drive so that I can  
> hook it up to the SATA port on my motherboard?

My experience with such adapters is that they rarely - if ever - work at  
all.


> I dig the increased airflow due to the thinner cables, but the cheaper
> circuit board adapters look like dust magnets.

Keep in mind that the ribbon cables can be easily folded and drawn along  
the chassis walls, making them obstruct the airflow even less than SATA  
cables. There are also round cables available, but I prefer the flat ones  
myself.


> Also, I have three IDE devices which each run natively at different UDMA  
> speeds: a mode 5 hard disk, a mode 4 DVD writer and an old LS-120 drive  
> whose speed I forgot (it's currently unplugged until I need it again).  
> Splitting them all onto different IDE channels would be good, I guess.

Do you only have one parallel ATA port? If so, my advice would be to  
simply replace the DVD-writer with a SATA device.

As for the LS-120, do you really need it? If it is only rarely used,  
perhaps an ATA->USB adapter would be a better choice.



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FE

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