Hi Ed,

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Julian Thomas wrote:
>> In , on 01/10/06 
>>    at 08:35 PM, Ed Durrant  typed:
>>
>>> There are SATA cards to add into non-SATA systems to use the
new drives, 
>>> but not as far as I know, any options the other way around.
>> Au contraire.  I have running right now a little SATA -> PATA
adapter that
>> fits on the back connector of the PATA drive and accepts a SATA cable.
>>
> 
> Ok, thanks for the update - I'll keep my eyes open for one of these at 
> the next computer market - I presume it is totally hardware based - I'm 
> interested in seeing if I can get hardware RAID (comes on many SATA 
> cards) working under OS/2. As the control program from Silicon Image is 
> written in Java, it's a possibility ! If I can get one or two of these 
> adapters and test using surplus PATA drives all the better.

FYI there's plenty of these on ebay, eg 
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/IDE-to-SATA-Serial-ATA-Converter-Upgrade-Your-System_W0QQitemZ5851122106QQcategoryZ41993QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>

Cheers,

Paul.


 
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