SATA Adapter
 

Has anyone played with those little SATA adapters that let you convert IDE
(PATA) drives to work on SATA ports?

I have a few of them here, and there's a very wierd symptom I'm wondering
about. Load XP on a PATA drive, and it's great. Add the adapter, tweak the
BIOS, and it works great. But, Win XP freaks out (blue screen and immediate
reboot at the splash screen) when I remove the adapter and try to use the
drive as PATA again.

MSI 848P Neo-V mobo.

Wierd.

-John O

Re: SATA Adapter
 

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:03:26 GMT, "John O"
<johno@NOSPAMMMheathkit.com> wrote:

>Has anyone played with those little SATA adapters that let you convert IDE
>(PATA) drives to work on SATA ports?

In a recent magazine test 3 of the 4 converters tested did not
function reliable.
And the fourth had some other limitations....

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

Re: SATA Adapter
 

>
>>Has anyone played with those little SATA adapters that let you convert IDE
>>(PATA) drives to work on SATA ports?
>
> In a recent magazine test 3 of the 4 converters tested did not
> function reliable.
> And the fourth had some other limitations....
>

Have any links to an online edition, Gerard? I have a bit more testing to
do, and the two devices I tried worked perfectly on the first try.

-John O

Re: SATA Adapter
 

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:41:38 GMT, "John O"
<johno@NOSPAMMMheathkit.com> wrote:

>>>Has anyone played with those little SATA adapters that let you convert IDE
>>>(PATA) drives to work on SATA ports?
>>
>> In a recent magazine test 3 of the 4 converters tested did not
>> function reliable.
>> And the fourth had some other limitations....
>>
>
>Have any links to an online edition, Gerard? I have a bit more testing to
>do, and the two devices I tried worked perfectly on the first try.

It's the dutch september edition of C'T magazine.
Don't expect it to be online :-)

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

Re: SATA Adapter
 

"Gerard Bok" <bok118@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
news:43668b54.12370723@News.Individual.NET...
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:41:38 GMT, "John O"
> <johno@NOSPAMMMheathkit.com> wrote:
>
>>>>Has anyone played with those little SATA adapters that let you convert
>>>>IDE
>>>>(PATA) drives to work on SATA ports?
>>>
>>> In a recent magazine test 3 of the 4 converters tested did not
>>> function reliable.
>>> And the fourth had some other limitations....
>>>
>>
>>Have any links to an online edition, Gerard? I have a bit more testing to
>>do, and the two devices I tried worked perfectly on the first try.
>
> It's the dutch september edition of C'T magazine.
> Don't expect it to be online :-)
>

Or in English either, I suppose. My Dutch isn't so good. ;-)

Win XP doesn't like the two adapters I'm playing with, or more precisely it
doesn't like the change to SATA. But Win 2k seems quite happy with either
PATA or SATA. I suspect that XP has some unique way of detecting or
controlling the data transfer mode, and the adapter messes with that.

-John O

-John O