On 5/27/2006 at 11:25 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
So (to get it on-topic for classiccmp), people with
machines that only
support IDE drives are going to have problems in the future finding
working replacements (I doubt very much if any of us could repair any
reasonably-modern IDE drive, alas). I've seen adapters to use IDE drives
on SATA hosts, but not the reverse.
They exist, for about the same price. See, for example:
http://www.xpcgear.com/idetosataconv.html
Cheers,
Chuck