facattack
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It came from Tiger Direct I think. I dont' know if I have the driver CD. Would this be viable for hooking up old IDE hard drives or a zip drive to a SATA computer?
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Internal IDE to SATA adaptor.
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Ole Juul
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I'm pretty sure these are for connecting a SATA drive to an IDE motherboard. In other words, the other way around from what you are suggesting. It is a hardware interface and should not need a driver.
These things are made to solve a common problem which is how to attach a new drive to an old mother board. A few IDE drives are still made but they are normally more expensive, so these adaptors are a good solution for some people with old computers that they don't want to replace yet.
These things are made to solve a common problem which is how to attach a new drive to an old mother board. A few IDE drives are still made but they are normally more expensive, so these adaptors are a good solution for some people with old computers that they don't want to replace yet.
facattack
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It has a switch. IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE.
Old Thrashbarg
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There are three different kinds of the things, some are for hooking SATA drives to IDE motherboards, some will do the opposite direction, and some are bi-directional. Yours is bi-directional, so yes, you can hook IDE drives to SATA motherboards. For that, switch it to 'SATA->IDE' mode.
But I wouldn't get my hopes up on running a Zip drive off one... those adapters are really only for hard drives, although sometimes CD/DVD drives will work with 'em.
But I wouldn't get my hopes up on running a Zip drive off one... those adapters are really only for hard drives, although sometimes CD/DVD drives will work with 'em.
facattack
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I got it to install properly and the Gateway hard drive appropriately enough is drive G on my computer; Running Get Data's "Recover my Files" right now. :D