Playing with Seagate

[jono-ats]

I wonder if anyone has had success "converting" a SATA Seagate 3.5" drive to an ATA (or visa versa)?

Jon

[dobrevjetser]

you mean changing the pcb's ?
I know for sure you can use the heads of a pata disk for a sata disk and vice versa. Just take care about the normal requirements for a head donor.
So changing the pcb's should work also.

Dobre

[pepe]

Hi,

I am not that sure
maybe after writing correct Appcode.

pepe

[salvationlaura]

I wonder if anyone has had success "converting" a SATA Seagate 3.5" drive to an ATA (or visa versa)?

Jon

What you mean, Jon?
what is the Coverting process?

[jono-ats]

Laura,

What I mean is swapping a SATA logic board onto an ATA drive (or visa versa) and making the new hybrid work.

Jon

[gsimon]

it works on Maxtor DM+9:

you can put pata pcb on sata hdd - and work...

vice versa - not work ...

but it is very rare situation....

[prodata]

maybe can be done when there is a sata bridge attached to sata PCB.

[gsimon]

it works on Maxtor DM+9:

you can put pata pcb on sata hdd - and work...

vice versa - not work ...

but it is very rare situation....

[rameez]

Also works in marvell drives but for saeagate i dont think it would work .

[pepe]

it works on Maxtor DM+9:

you can put pata pcb on sata hdd - and work...

vice versa - not work ...

but it is very rare situation....

According to my experience:
It only works on <128GB drives, since if U put a PATA board onto a SATA drive, there will be no LBA48 support.
Also the drive won't work in UDMA mode, but in MWDMA only.
But if U write a compatible ATA overlay onto the SATA drive, it will solve these problems above.

pepe

[sigitharjono]

I have success "converting" a SATA Seagate 3.5" drive to an ATA on Seagate B 7