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jono-ats

Post subject: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 11:21

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

Jon

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dobrevjetser

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 13:24

Joined: December 27th, 2006, 10:15
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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.

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pepe

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 13:31

Joined: October 3rd, 2005, 0:40
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Hi,

I am not that sure

maybe after writing correct Appcode.

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salvationlaura

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 22:00

Joined: January 26th, 2007, 22:49
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jono-ats wrote:

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?

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jono-ats

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 23:26

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Laura,

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

Jon

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gsimon

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 4:15

Joined: October 7th, 2005, 2:03
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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....

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prodata

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 5:57

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

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gsimon

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 7:50

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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....

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rameez

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 15:57

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Location: In ur HDD !

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

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pepe

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 18:20

Joined: October 3rd, 2005, 0:40
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gsimon wrote:

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.

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sigitharjono

Post subject: Re: Playing with Seagate

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 4:01

Joined: April 19th, 2006, 7:12
Posts: 63

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

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