You're limited to what the PC can see, it is "seeing" a PATA drive, so unless it supports PATA drives of 1TB it won't see the entire drive. It's fun running converters. I've put an mSATA > SATA > PATA setup before for giggles. It worked, but limited by the PATA architecture.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> wrote: > If you use a PATA to SATA convertor to run a SATA drive in a PATA USB2 > external drive, are you still restricted to the PATA controllers size > limitation? > i.e. can you put a TB SATA drive on a USB2 PATA >>SATA external drive? > Has anybody tried this? >