Converting a parallel ATA hard drive for a serial ATA motherboard...

[HeyZeus]

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_bridge.html

I found that nifty thing (among others) and was wondering if it is worth my while. Anyone have any experience with these? We got a new computer and it has like a million serial ports on the motherboard but only one regular old IDE that leads to the optical drive and I heard that when you try to plug a hard drive in between as the slave on these new computers that it will go really slow (which it indeed has been doing). The hard drive is brand new and so is the computer, and it's set to use DMA if possible in Windows XP, so I was thinking maybe converting it's interface to serial might make it normal. Advice? Thanks in advance!

 

[ski]

If the system is working ok and just the subject HD's performance is slow and it's ATA/66 or faster, then make sure an 80 wire IDE cable being used to connect it to the MB.

If so and it's connected to the middle IDE cable connector as Slave, then see if jumpering it as Master and connecting it to the end IDE connector helps.

If not, then see if jumpering it as CS(cable select) helps.

 

[HeyZeus]

Ok I'll experiment with those settings to see what happens. Thanks for the input.

 

[paparazi]

It's an adapter bridge! so doesn't give your ATA100/133 drive SATA150 performance or true SATA 150 interface capable speed.
(not that any desktop drive comes even close to 150 bus speeds)
So in short, there is nothing to be gained apart from the ability to free up an IDE connection.
Martin

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