Serial ATA adapters

[sswingle]

Has anyone used one of these?
SATA Adapter

I am thinking about getting a couple. It says for ATA 100/133 hard drives. Will it work with my ATA 66 drive?

 

[Nebor]

Make sure they work with your sata controller.

 

[MDE]

It'll be fine on an ATA 66 drive, not sure how practical it is, but it'll work.

 

[sswingle]

How do I determine if it'll work on my controller? I have a Abit KV7

I know it won't help performance or anything, I just want to get rid of my huge cables. Even rounded ones seem to take up tons of room.

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: pwddesign
How do I determine if it'll work on my controller? I have a Abit KV7

I know it won't help performance or anything, I just want to get rid of my huge cables. Even rounded ones seem to take up tons of room.

Well, I got them today. Installed both, didn't work. The SATA bios said unrecognizable drive. Took the one off the ATA66 drive, and the one on the ATA133 drive works fine. Only problem is Windows calls the drive E now instead of D, but I can deal with that.

 

[sswingle]

If anyone is wondering about performance....

Sisoft Sandra benched the drive at 23,330 kB/s when it was using a parrallel cable
When using the SATA adapter, Sisoft benches the drive at 29,356

Thats decent 🙂

 

[artemedes]

Sounds like you figured it out. My Abit NF7-S came with a similar adapter, and the instructions made a special point of saying that it would only work on ATA100 or faster drives.

 

[sswingle]

Abit claims their Serrillel devices can work on cd rom drives. Its amazing it works on those and not a slower hard drive.