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19-Sep-2006, 11:06 PM #1
Add a SATA hard drive to old PATA PC?
I talked a friend into trying out Ubuntu. He just got a new PC to replace one that lost its PATA HDD. So, the old PC is a perfect candidate for experimentation. He's talking about putting a SATA HDD into the old PC. Has anyone had any experience using add-in SATA controller PCI cards in Linux? I sure don't want him to buy the controller card and SATA HDD unless we know it's gonna work...
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20-Sep-2006, 06:14 AM #2
Not done it myself but technically there is nothing to stop an add-in Sata controller from working in a mobo equipped with only IDE buses.

SATA and PATA are in fact the same disk hardware wise. It is only he interface that is different.
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20-Sep-2006, 08:23 PM #3
I added a Silicon Image SATA controller card on a motherboard (A7N8X-X) that didn't have SATA onboard. My Kubuntu installation CD picked up the controller card
right away. No problems.

MASTER IDE Drive ----> Mandriva Installation
SLAVE IDE Drive ----> Formatted as ext2 strictly for storage
SATA Drive on controller card ----> Kubuntu Installation
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