Can I use SATA to PATA bridge and then SATA raid on motherboard?

[PandaBear]

I'm currently running a PATA raid on a pair of Seagate 7200.7 120GB and short stroke the boot/program partition to the first 60GB and data to the remaining 180GB. Happy with the performance as my system is old (Athlon XP 1600+)

Newer boards (like those with 880G and SB710) seems to only support SATA raid and I would like to keep my PATA drives while upgrade. So I'm wondering if I get those $4 SATA to PATA bridge / adapter from ebay, can I use SATA raid on the motherboard? I am aware that there're ACHI, Legacy, etc mode and I'm not sure if these SATA raid only works with a native SATA drive or if a PATA converted drive would work as well.

 

[razel]

Those cheap PATA/SATA bridges are a headache. You may not get full speed or full compatibility or both. It's a gamble and you'll more likely lose. You'll have less headaches spending a few dollars more for a PCI SATA adapter.

 

[PandaBear]

My drives are PATA and I want to reuse them in a MB upgrade, not trying to use new SATA drives with old MB.

 

[Emulex]

they suck you'd be better off getting a pci pata card imo. or spend $50 and get a 2TB drive

 

[EarthwormJim]

You bothered to short stroke and operate the drives in a RAID, and you don't want to spend $40 or less for a modern hard drive?

Those drives are old at this point, very old, they're probably past their warranty. I wouldn't use them just from a data security stand point.


I have used those converters before, on an older Intel motherboard with an ICH7 SB. They did work fine, no PATA drives around at the time could saturate the PATA bus anyway, so there wasn't a performance loss.

The first SATA hard drives had those converter chips built in.

 

[Old Hippie]

Sorry Panda.

You have an old system, those bridge boards are horrible, AMD's RAID is horrible, and it'd be a waste to put anymore money on your computer.

Sad but true.

Start saving your pennies for a total upgrade.