Installing a PATA Hard Drive in a SATA Computer

jsmog · 12-10-2007, 12:07 PM

Greetings,
My old motherboard has bit the dust,

and rather than disassemble and repair, I've decided to upgrade to a brand spanking new Velocity Micro. I'd like to install my old hard drive, so here's my question. Since my old hard drive uses a parallel ATA connection (hey, top-of-the-line in 2002), how would you (or have you) added it to a modern SATA computer? Do prefer adding it to the secondary PATA cable, or using a PATA-to-SATA adapter and slaving it? And if you use the secondary, is it better to slave it to the DVD/CD/optical drive on that cable, or vice versa? Interested in comparing your experiences. Thanks.

**Done_Fishin** · 12-10-2007, 01:55 PM

If you have a P-ATA connector on your mobo .. use it as MAster and your CD\DVD drive as Slave
Most adapters I have used are really slow ..

Alternatively get a PCI card for it and use it via the card .,.,..

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12-10-2007, 12:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
jsmog Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 8 OS: Windows Vista	Installing a PATA Hard Drive in a SATA Computer Greetings, My old motherboard has bit the dust, and rather than disassemble and repair, I've decided to upgrade to a brand spanking new Velocity Micro. I'd like to install my old hard drive, so here's my question. Since my old hard drive uses a parallel ATA connection (hey, top-of-the-line in 2002), how would you (or have you) added it to a modern SATA computer? Do prefer adding it to the secondary PATA cable, or using a PATA-to-SATA adapter and slaving it? And if you use the secondary, is it better to slave it to the DVD/CD/optical drive on that cable, or vice versa? Interested in comparing your experiences. Thanks. __________________ Joel Rane Inglewood Public Library _______________________________ "Aloha, suckers." -- Steve McGarrett

12-10-2007, 01:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,362 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Re: Installing a PATA Hard Drive in a SATA Computer If you have a P-ATA connector on your mobo .. use it as MAster and your CD\DVD drive as Slave Most adapters I have used are really slow .. Alternatively get a PCI card for it and use it via the card .,.,.. __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner