better to use ide/sata converter - they are usually bidirectional so when you upgrade again to a sata main board - you can also use it for legacy ide drives.
Sent from my iPhone On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:58, "Dr A. J. Trickett" <adam.trick...@iredale.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Before I buy a new one, does anyone have a PCI (not PCIe) bus, SATA > controller > card I could put in an old PC to allow it to take SATA hard disks instead of > the tiny PATA disk it currently has in, that they no longer need...? > > It's not desperate but just checking. > > It goes without saying it needs to work with Linux...! > > -- > Adam Trickett > Overton, HANTS, UK > > "Norton Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This > provides more security than wiping with decimal values." > -- from the manual of Norton Systemworks 2002, pg 160 > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
