thunder.scripts Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Let's see. I've been trying to make OS X work with a SATA disk and nForce4 chips. It works, but not so good. That's why I was thinking if there was some kind of adapter I could attach to my hd to connect it to an IDE slot. If such thing exists, could you recommend me one in ebay? :pirate2: I found many ata to sata adapters, but not the other way around. Thanks Fede EDIT: is this what I need? http://cgi.ebay.com/Syba-Serial-ATA-SATA-I...1QQcmdZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Yes, that's the one you need. But why buy from ebay? It is available at your local computer shop. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 Damn, I accidentally edited the page and lost the link!! Anyway, I need to buy it in eBay 'cause I can't find it in Argentina. Thanks Fede EDIT: i found the link :pirate2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 Sorry to keep bothering, but will that work? Of course I don't want you to guarantee it will, but has anyone tried something like this, or would it be logical for it to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Sorry to keep bothering, but will that work? Of course I don't want you to guarantee it will, but has anyone tried something like this, or would it be logical for it to work? The device in the link is designed to allow use of an IDE hard drive on a SATA bus. As I understand your issue, isn't that the opposite of what you need ? G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 Yeah, that's what I thought, but the title of the product is a bit confusing. Then if that's not it, which one should I buy? Thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Yeah, that's what I thought, but the title of the product is a bit confusing. Then if that's not it, which one should I buy? Thanks!!! I haven't SEEN what you are looking for. My guess is that if such a device exists, it would be realtively expensive and still might not work in OSX86. Since EIDE hard drives are cheap and plentiful, there must be little demand for a device to put SATA devices on your EIDE bus. If I were in your situtation, I'd reserve the SATA drive for Windoze, and get an EIDE drive for OSX86 for your IDE bus. Should make a nice dual boot system PROVIDED your motherboard IDE controller supports OSX86. A search here (wiki & forum) should confirm that. G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Yeah, that link you gave isn't what youre looking for. I know that SATA Drive -> IDE Bus adapters ARE available, becuase we got one by mistake once, but they are very expensive (from what I remember they were like 100 bucks or something), compared to the other way around to use an IDE drive on SATA bus. Your best bet would be to post your drive on a forsale/fortrade forum and see if someone is willing to trade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 Yeah, a trade would be better since I need to share files between Windows and OS X. I know OS X works with my IDE controller because I once installed it in a 4GB IDE drive, so... it should work. Thanks, I'll see what I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 This Adapter , I think is what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenokira Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 This Adapter , I think is what you are looking for. That adapter is intriguing.. however, you can get 80GB drive on Newegg for not much more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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