SATA-150/II on a PATA System

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Richard in Va.

Would anyone know how to use a SATA hard drive on a Ultra100 PATA system?

I'm considering a complete system upgrade in 4-6 months that will be SATA
I/II, however I have one (1) hard drive that I need to replace soon. No OS
on this drive, I store my personal files on this drive.

I realize there is an adder board (mounts on the back of the drive itself)
that will allow a PATA drive to coexist on a SATA system. And I realize I
can probably get a SATA controller board (PCI) to go in my current system
that will allow the SATA drive to coexist on a PATA IDE system.

I already have one Ultra100 IDE controller to support my four (4) existing
drives and my PCI slots are already full.

Do I have any other options?

Thanks for any help!

Best regards,
Richard in Va.
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Hello!

Richard in Va. said:
Would anyone know how to use a SATA hard drive on a Ultra100 PATA system?

that will allow the SATA drive to coexist on a PATA IDE system.

I already have one Ultra100 IDE controller to support my four (4) existing
drives and my PCI slots are already full.
Click to expand...

What are other PCI cards? For example, if you have USB 2 and
Firewire (IEEE 1394) PCI cards, you can replace both of them
with one USB2+FW combo:
http://www.conceptronic.net/site/De...Cat=30&grp=3020&Prod_ID=723&Prod=CDUOFWU&st=3
BTW, there exists combo USB2+FW+SATA card:
http://www.buslink.com/p_PCIU2FS.shtml
or even USB2+FW+GigaLAN combo:
http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=555

Another option: if you have PCI audio or PCI TV-Tuner or
PCI-Ethernet or PCI-modem cards,
you can replace them with USB external solutions:
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=206&product=10702
http://www.tv-cards.com/usb.php
http://www.conceptronic.net/site/De...at=40&grp=4010&Prod_ID=757&Prod=CSP480LU&st=2
http://www.conceptronic.net/site/De...&Cat=50&grp=5010&ar=197&Prod_ID=697&Prod=C56U

Cheers, Roman
 
Hello Roman,

yea... I was afraid of that. Having to buy/install something else (PCI
device) in order to use SATA on my existing system.

Thanks for all the ideas and links.
Thank-you for your time and effort as well...!

The holidays are coming up and I've already committed myself to the Dell 24"
wide screen flat panel monitor that will require a new (digital) video card
and some system memory to help things along.

Maybe I will migrate the data on my old PATA drive over to one of my newer
drives till I follow through with a full system upgrade.

I'll follow your recommended links tonight to see if something stirs my
interest tho.

I guess in the long run, a new SATA/USB2/? combo PCI board may come in handy
when I do upgrade.
Of the newer motherboards I see, most have four (4) SATA interfaces and one
(1) IDE PATA interface. The IDE will already be consumed by existing CD
drives. And I should be able to use my existing Ultra-100 PCI controller on
the new motherboard such that I can keep a few of my PATA drives for data
storage/backup.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Richard in Va.
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