fitting a SATA drive to an old IDE motherboard

Hi folks

Have fitted hard drives before. Fancied a new larger job but being a new Dad with severe sleep deprivation just didnt look at the detail when ordering and have ended up with a nice SATA OEM job when I should simply have got another IDE drive!

My motherboard is 32 bit enhanced PCI IDE and Ultra DMA 33/66/10/133 controller. Is it possible to get a power lead adaptor and some kind of IDE to SATA adapter to fit the new SATA drive? Have serached internet but not convinced I'm getting what I need.

Just nodding off again!!

JM:help:

you can buy sata controllers off ebay for about a tenner.

this would do you fine

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-Port-SATA-VI...QQcmdZViewItem

thanks for your quick reply - looks just the job

You can also use one of these http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=577057

[QUOTE=0iD;1170159]You can also use one of these.... (cant post urls yet lol)


Has anyone used one of these? I could save a bit on my new build by using my current IDE drive with the converter.

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Originally Posted by 0iD

You can also use one of these.... (cant post urls yet lol)


Has anyone used one of these? I could save a bit on my new build by using my current IDE drive with the converter.

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they work (all early SATA drives were ATA drives with converters like this built in)

but they're not appropriate for jonathanmilford who needs the reverse (i.e. to use a sata drive with an ata controller, not an ata drive with a sata controller)

thanks again all