guilliamo Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 There are several adapters/converters that theoretically take advantage of the surplus of SATA connections and EIDE/IDE devices that many of us have. They plug into EIDE/IDE hard drives or CD/DVD Drives and provide connections to the SATA bus. I have seen these mentioned here but have found no reports of any WORKING in OSX86. Example adapter: <http://cgi.ebay.com/Syba-Serial-ATA-SATA-IDE-Hard-Drive-Converter-Adapter_W0QQitemZ8757528142QQcategoryZ39967QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>. Are any working ? G Motherboard: Intel D915GAG (10.4.3/8F1111g) CPU: Pentium 4/630 3 GHz, 2MB Cache RAM: 2GB DDR GPU: GMA900 w/Dell ADD2 DVI adapter (supporting QE/CI at 1920 x 1200) Display: DELL 2405FPW 24" LCD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I have two adapters and they work, but since my MotherBoard has a nForce Chipset I cant use SATA channels, but in Win XP those Disks connected with the adapters are faster than conncect directly to IDE/PATA channels. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/#findComment-49945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted January 29, 2006 Author Share Posted January 29, 2006 I have two adapters and they work, but since my MotherBoard has a nForce Chipset I cant use SATA channels, but in Win XP those Disks connected with the adapters are faster than conncect directly to IDE/PATA channels. MacGirl: Thanks; Do you know the brand (or chipset) of your adapters ? Since the SATA works fine on my Intel board, I'd expect an adapter that works in XP will very likely work in OSX86. The onboard IDE on the Intel mother board seems pretty fast, so I'm not really expecting a speedup, just ability to add an additional drive or two. Thanks again, G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/#findComment-49949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Me too , i'm using Sata to IDE adapter since my motherboard is Intel 915GAG only got one IDE slot . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/#findComment-49968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 same here, Asrock only had one IDE, so am using this. works great! http://sewelldirect.com/SerialATAtoIDEConv...CFSEdJAodhVvtqg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/#findComment-50016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 MacGirl: Thanks; Do you know the brand (or chipset) of your adapters ? Since the SATA works fine on my Intel board, I'd expect an adapter that works in XP will very likely work in OSX86. The onboard IDE on the Intel mother board seems pretty fast, so I'm not really expecting a speedup, just ability to add an additional drive or two. Thanks again, G Sure, my adapters are From HighPoint Techonlogies, model RocketHead 100. Here's the site http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rh100.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7926-sata-to-ide-converters/#findComment-50097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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