IDE TO SATA Convertor

[Efros]

I have a SATA device to IDE interface converter kicking around my cavern (my wife calls it an office but its way too untidy for that) somewhere. I'll dig it out and try a spare SATA drive I have. this one came with a media player this one in fact (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PM318S&cat=CSE) which has an internal IDE interface and uses a SATA converter to allow SATA HDDs. If you look at the picture you can see a mini IDE cable and the power cable. Anyhow I'll try it over the next week or so.

[Efros]

Ok to report back, the device works, but only if you mount the drive externally, not enough room physically in the bay, but I suspect a 2.5" SATA would be quite happy in there. I used the included mini IDE cable and the power cable to externalise the connections for the IDE to SATA interface and hooked the SATA drive to that. was able to install games and play them OK.

[urbigbro]

Ok to report back, the device works, but only if you mount the drive externally, not enough room physically in the bay, but I suspect a 2.5" SATA would be quite happy in there. I used the included mini IDE cable and the power cable to externalise the connections for the IDE to SATA interface and hooked the SATA drive to that. was able to install games and play them OK.

I have just such a HDD, and live quite close to the geeks retail store. Could you provide pics of your set-up so I can see how big the adapter is and how it hooks up?
Thanks

My ultimate goal is to make it so I don't need to remove the NA each time I want to add games. I'll just pull the 2.5" SATA drive out the front of the PS2. I will have to cut a hole in the front of the HDD bay and mount the HDD on some type of rails, but the space on either side of the 2.5" HDD is not what I'm concerned about.

[Efros]

I'm afraid I took it apart, and reassembled the Media player. If you are going to mount it from the front then I would think that any interface will do, you could try a rack like this, it fits in a standard 3.5" floppy housing, would need some neat dremel work. The AERHD25SAW comes with a built in ide to sata converter.

http://www.addonics.com/products/mob...k/aenrhd25.asp

I'll rip the media player apart again tomorrow and post the pics.


There's also this thing

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...391-S2&cat=CSE

which I have, it would be interesting to hook it up to the IDE to SATA interface this thing has an external power supply though and the setup wouldn't be too pretty to look at.

[Blades_Nee]

i'd love to confirm it, but I'm without any real adapter. the ide bus to sata hdd adapters I got from ebay are junk and most components on it need to be removed, realigned, and resoldered. some users are reporting good results with it though. I'm rather tempted to pick up another network adapter to modify just for this.

Mine came from eBay also, and I've used it for all my transfering(s). It came with
extras that make it possible to use a SATA drive, and was lucky enough to only
pay about $15 USD for it.

I must've gotten a really good deal I guess.

As for the sata version hd connect for slim, it looks very promising. I just wish they'd do a HD Combo version for a neater packaging.

Wouldn't that be nice.......