Sata->ide

[mechy]

i have used some cheap 40pin ide to sata converters and they seem to work fine, i do prefer plain ide stuff on ide though since its best to avoid any conversion when you can. i think this is the adapter i was using:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pata-IDE-To-Sata-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Converter-3-5-HDD-Parallel-to-Serial-ATA-New-/171160951564?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d9fcdb0c

I have used a 1TB drive with it.. can you say lots of partitions lol.