Nippon Labs AD-SATA-IDE-B IDE to SATA Adapter or SATA to IDE Adapter

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Functions specifically as advertised. Functions "either way" (SATA-> IDE or IDE-> SATA)Wants no drivers. Works with Linux. Reduces the number of IDE devices. This card plugs into the IDE slot of your personal computer, and will only allow a single SATA disk to be used for each IDE slot. In contrast to IDE, which can have a Master & Slave device plugged in to every single IDE connector slot, when you use this device, you cut the number of disks in HALF. I needed to upgrade the two IDE disks in a "backup Server". The server has a small IDE system disk running Linux, a CDROM, and two) 300-GByte IDE disks for backup files. The Technique Disk & CDROM was hooked to the Primary IDE interface, and the two) 300-GByte disks on the Secondary IDE interface as Main & Slave. I hoped to replace those two disks with Terrabyte SATAs. However, I can only plug in a single SATA disk to every of the IDE interfaces, so I have to fully re-engineer the disk/CDROM setup.I like to preserve my method files on a absolutely separate disk from the backup files.Now, with my old motherboard with a Main & Secondary IDE interfaces, I can only have TWO disk devices if I convert them all to SATA.

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None Creates ATAPI errors continuously and causes machine to reboot on Windows 7 64b. Neve own yet another

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affordable I purchased two and neither worked. I tried every pin and switch configuration, but could never get my drive to perform with this adapter.

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1. BI-Directional works: SATA HDD to PATA IDE, PATA HDD to SATAtwo. UDMA5 both directionsthree. Passes Smart to smarmontools: ID, Information and error/self-test logs quite poor mechanical style of SATA header -- shield broke off, connection unusuable The SATA header shield broke off shortly right after I tested it. This is a quite fragile device. To the extent I was able to test it, it worked as expected, UDMA5. But this need to have been a manufacturing defect, as nobody would intentionally make the connector that flimsy.Like practically all these pass-via connectors, the full Smart readings can be accessed by smartmontools: ID, Data and error/self-test logs.-- Roy Zider

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none Didn't function for me.