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Question: It is possible to connect my IDE CD/DVD-ROM to my SATA motherboard with this adapter ?
Document: GREAT for SATA drives that need an old ide hookup... HORRIBLE for me, who bought it to use old IDE drives on a new SATA motherboard... the resistors are right in the way so its a no go... kept them for possible.. future... use... ya right lol. No ones fault but my own for thinking that it would work reverse...
This thing works perfectly, I just plugged the IDE cable & power cable from my computer into this thing, then plugged the whole assy into the SATA slots on the DVD burner & it all just works! No fuss no muss. Didn't have to install any software, didn't have to figure out how to "tweak" it to get it to work, it just did. Very happy this exists because getting an un-used PATA DVD is darn near impossible & very expensive.I haven't tried myself, but it's supposed to be just as easy with Hard drives.
I had to take off a star because there were no instructions on how to make this work. I was using this to hook up two SATA optical drives to my old computer. However, the jumper configuration was not clear in how to make it work, and since this is more geared towards HDD usage I had to use a newer IDE HDD cable, the one that the wires are thinner and more of them. The old style CD cable would not work correctly with this and would not register in the bios correctly even though the cable was new.
There is one caveat to be aware of (which if someone knows a work-around, please let me know): You can only connect 1 SATA drive to your 2-port IDE/ATA cable. I stuck a 1TB WD Blue w/64MB cache into my old Dell Dimension 8250 (with a hyperthreading P4 running at 3GHz and 1.5GB 1066 Rambus RAM...not a bad machine, or I'd have chucked the thing!). I thought my 500GB Blue IDE drive had blown, but it was the old 160GB I had as a slave that went to click heaven, and made the whole IDE channel not work....but, I digress.
This unit cost a few pennies for me to adapt a mistaken-mismatch purchase for my desktop. This adapting unit worked. Be careful though with compatabilities and adapters, as I had to study my system and the new CD to reassure myself this adapter would in fact fix my mistaken internal CD purchase. My analysis, before purchase of the correcting adapter, led me to feel the unit would work. Since this adapter cost under $2 plus S&H;, I elected to go ahead and try it out. It worked!No problems for almost a year of usage.
Anyway, I expected the performance to be lame on the 133MHz IDE channel, but for $5, I figured why not try. So, after realizing that I wasn't going to get both drives working, I stuck my old 500GB, perfectly good IDE drive in my external USB2/Firewire Apricorn case, and used the Acronis drive cloning tool that came with it (which has saved a few bad drives for me) to copy over my XP Pro system. Unplugged it, rebooted, and immediately noticed that the computer started-up significantly faster, and runs quicker with this adapter and the new SATA3 Drive.
I had to upgrade the hard drive in my old 2004 xbox. PATA drives cost almost twice that of the newer SATA hard drives. This little baby worked out perfect. Used it with a 2TB WD dive and couldn't be happier.
I finally got this working when I put the jumper on the master, took the jumper off the slave, and used the newer cable for IDE HDD. You will know when they are working correctly and your bios picks them up correctly because they have a red and green light. The green is good!
worked great - easy to install it was exactly what i was looking for - i can watch dvd's and load cd's again Thanks!!!! !
this was exactly what I needed to access old hard drives that I thought were going to be obsolete with the new sata interface. the price was unbelievable and delivery was very prompt.. I would suggest this product and vendor to others. thank you
Answer: I have not physically tried to hook mine up that way, and the more I stare @ it, the more I think it's NOT possible. The reason is this plugs right in to the back of a SATA drive by itself, but it will NOT hook up to an IDE/PATA drive without a dbl ended adaptor. That goes for the power plug too. What you need is this: Generic IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE Adapter , which appears to work in both directions.Hope that makes sense :)