You can always get one of these
http://www.satacables.com/html/sata_to_ide_adapter.html
On 12/26/2009 3:46 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote:
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From paul stenquist
Subject: OT: Hard drive enclosures?
My oldest external drive failed. It's close to 10 years old and is only
about 130 meg. It was fully backed up, so it's not a problem. It's a 3.5
SATA drive in an enclosure. I'm wondering if I can use that enclosure for
any SATA 3.5 drive. I'm going to replace it with a 1.5 terabyte Seagate
7200 rpm 3.5 SATA. Are all enclosures created equal?
BTW, amazon currently has that Seagate drive for $114 with free shipping.
Paul
Paul, I'd be surprised if it is SATA - I don't think SATA was around 10
years ago. I reckon it's more likely to be ATA, (aka PATA or IDE). If that's
the case, the enclosure won't work for a SATA drive - the interface is
different. The power connector is different too...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA for info (not guaranteed to be
definitive of course)
Chris
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