IDE to SATA converter? Which chip manufacturer is recommen..

My Seagate was one of the first drives to use that kind of chip. Are you
planning building a PCB with one of this ? Cause if you do I could disconet
the drive, and let you know the right reference.

MS

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>I need to buy a IDE to ATA converter.
> Any suggestion of what IDE to SATA chip is reliable and good?
> Is Silicon image SiI3811 good?
>
> Thanks!
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On Feb 19, 11:58 pm, mars... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> I need to buy a IDE to ATA converter.
> Any suggestion of what IDE to SATA chip is reliable and good?
> Is Silicon image SiI3811 good?
>
> Thanks!

I've been using a couple two/three-year old Silicon Image PCI cards
for SATA and ATA extensions to the MB (3 DVD burners and 4 HDs).
Cabling convenience, channel bandwidth, etc.,, tends get messy at
times. No complaints with the cards up until now. So far's been
great working with ATA DVDs (mainly NECs), but my system may be
showing its age (756 socket) with the last couple DVD units I bought,
a LG/ATA and Lite-on/SATA. Couple odd issues I'm still working on
settling. Had to migrate the LG over to another newer Duron 478 MB
(via the PCI Silicon Image SATA card), that Lite-On just wasn't taking
to my ASUS here, and with 2 almost identical ATA LGs (and NEC), the
PCI ATA Silicon, depending on mix-&-matching drives/channels, can tend
to evince a slow BIOS boot ID delay.

Wouldn't hesitate to buy more Silicon Image for great prices,
though. Bye, bye, say so long, Promise.
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