Jay,
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 at 09:24:50AM +0000, jay bennie wrote:
> 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.
Interesting idea. In this case most of my systems are SATA
already, so it's just one older PC I'm reusing, so I don't have a
lot of PATA drives to carry forward.
I'll bear in mind for other use cases though.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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