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Hard drive converters
« on: December 16, 2008, 08:47:13 PM »
I'm getting ready to part from my old SCSI-harddrive connected to my BPPC due to lack of 80-pin QUIET scsi-hdd's on the market (10000 rpm's is pissing me off). So i've decided to use a converter to connect an IDE or SATA harddisk to my BlizzPPC. Now i've tracked down a couple of possibilities:

1. use an IDE-to-SCSI converter to use IDE HDD's
2. use a SATA-to-SCSI converter to use SATA HDD's
3. use an IDE-to-SCSI converter connected to a SATA-to-IDE converter to use SATA HDD's.

Now i've examined and option 2. is a rather expensive one and i don't know if option 3. works (2 converters connected to each other). Has somebody tried any converters? If then please share your experiences!

Thanks :-)
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Re: Hard drive converters
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2008, 10:01:15 PM »
Damn, never thought of this possibility though i have a CF-IDE adapter on my IDE-port :-)

The problem is the size: i have much stuff on my 36GB SCSI-HD and i don't think there's such a CF card to hold the amount...

But thanks for the idea :-)
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Re: Hard drive converters
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2008, 06:22:02 AM »
Ok, thanks. I'll see what choice i run into.
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Re: Hard drive converters
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2008, 12:50:53 PM »
AF they are not compatible with BPPC but thx anyway.
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Re: Hard drive converters
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2008, 02:59:16 AM »
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Sorry, what isnt compatible with BPPC?
I was referring to a SCSI-SATA converter here:
http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?prod_no=AEC-7730SA&type1_title=SCSIDE%20II%20Bridge&type1_idno=11&idno_no=244

I'm not sure about the compatibility though, anyone have a guess or answer?
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