better to use ide/sata converter - they are usually bidirectional so when you upgrade again to a sata main board - you can also use it for legacy ide drives. 
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On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:58, "Dr A. J. Trickett" <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Before I buy a new one, does anyone have a PCI (not PCIe) bus, SATA controller 
> card I could put in an old PC to allow it to take SATA hard disks instead of 
> the tiny PATA disk it currently has in, that they no longer need...?
> 
> It's not desperate but just checking.
> 
> It goes without saying it needs to work with Linux...!
> 
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> Adam Trickett
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