#garfield Logs

Oct 17 2014

18:56 Tom_itx have you tried your SATA adapter?
18:56 Tom_itx i'm trying to figure mine out but so far it's not working
18:57 Tom_itx the PATA to SATA one
18:58 Tom_L http://www.ebay.com/itm/311088530469?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
18:58 Tom_itx that one
19:02 Tom_itx the plug seems to only power the onboard electronics, not the HDD
19:02 Tom_itx i had to use an adapter for the 2.5 IDE which has a power plug on it
19:03 Tom_itx so i've got 2 power plugs, one for the HDD and one for the board
19:03 Tom_itx still get nothing in the bios
19:03 Tom_itx it actually hangs it
19:10 Tom_itx ok nm i figured it out
19:58 rue_house mine works great
19:58 rue_house Tom_itx, does yours have a usb connector on it?
19:58 Tom_itx yeah mine does too now that i figured it out
19:58 rue_house its not sata to pata then
19:58 rue_house its usb to
19:58 Tom_itx one has SATA PATA USB and the other is SATA PATA
19:59 Tom_itx i have 2
19:59 rue_house I told you not to get the one with usb to do sata<->pata
19:59 Tom_itx i know
19:59 Tom_itx i wanted it anyway
19:59 Tom_itx for backups
19:59 rue_house ok, let me ask this,
19:59 rue_house what do you have and what are you trying to do
19:59 Tom_itx i got it done
19:59 rue_house answer arruratly pls!
19:59 rue_house yay!
20:00 Tom_itx both adapters do what i wanted them to
20:00 Tom_itx i'm aware what the USB one is for
20:00 Tom_itx but it's good for transferring big stuff quick
20:00 Tom_itx over a thumb drive
20:00 Tom_itx instead of*
20:00 rue_house yea
20:01 rue_house I have sata drives I want to put into pata only machines, so mine works for that
20:01 Tom_itx i haven't tried reversing it yet
20:01 Tom_itx does that work?
20:01 Tom_itx SATA -> PATA?
20:02 rue_house acutally, i only tried it the one way
20:02 rue_house I dont have a motherbaord with sata to try it the other way around
20:02 Tom_itx i can tell you that works
20:02 rue_house pretty sure mine is fine tho
20:02 Tom_itx i booted with it on one
20:03 rue_house they have 2 sata connectors, you use the one that makes it the right way around for what you want
20:03 rue_house :) I wonder if I could back-to-back the two I got
20:05 Tom_itx they're female on both ends anyway
20:05 Tom_itx the drive and the MB are both male
20:06 Tom_itx my dk should be here tomorrow
20:59 rue_house yes, but I suspect there is a tx-rx reversal
21:02 Tom_itx or maybe the reversal is in firmware
21:02 Tom_itx i don't know anything about the protocol
21:03 Tom_itx i wish i had one more sata plug on my atom board