SATA adapter for internal Apple TV drive?

[potatis]

Originally Posted by boy412

So I had a 1TB AppleTV running for quite some time. I bought the Advantec adapter and a 1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue 2.5" SATA drive. Recently I could not get the AppleTV to boot...it was stuck in recovery mode. I popped in my original 160GB IDE drive and was able to get up and running again.

I've ordered one of the Brando adapters just for troubleshooting, so we will see if that has any effect.

I am re-reading through this thread in preparation to re-clone the drive if need be. Does anyone know where to get a copy of AtvCloner? The link on iClarified's site is broken. I could use the other method, but the AtvCloner worked so nicely I'd prefer to use that again...if I can find a copy.

If someone reading this has a copy can you please let me know?

Thanks..

How did it work out for you? I take it that the Advantage adapter works with 1 TB drives then. I have the same adapter and a 1 TB Hitachi I can't get to work, although a 500 GB Seagate works fine. Using AtvCloner ...there was a link in a similar thread here.

[6EQUJ5]

I'm looking for a shorter 44-pin ide cable (female to female) to replace the apple (foxconn) one in my 1st gen apple tv... i've bought a couple off ebay but the 44-pin cables were a little wider than apple's proprietary version so it doesn't fit. does anyone know where i can find one that will fit? maybe a place that makes custom ide ribbon cables?

[crhendo]

Originally Posted by 6EQUJ5

I'm looking for a shorter 44-pin ide cable (female to female) to replace the apple (foxconn) one in my 1st gen apple tv... i've bought a couple off ebay but the 44-pin cables were a little wider than apple's proprietary version so it doesn't fit. does anyone know where i can find one that will fit? maybe a place that makes custom ide ribbon cables?

I looked long and hard for one of these a few months ago. I even tried to order the part from Apple without any success. It is definitely a non-standard size as I have tried 5 different ribbon cables that "appeared" to match the description. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[dubs1856]

I successfully formatted a 320GB hard drive for my apple tv using ATVCloner software. I just purchased the 750GB western digital scorpion blue drive linked a couple of pages back and I am having issues with it not formatting a couple of the partitions on the drive. I am checking the box for large disk in the ATVCloner software. What have others been using to successfully format the 750GB drives?

[Cave Man]

I've done a 1.5 TB eSATA drive but I can't recall how I did it. I think I did it before ATV Cloner was available, but it's been so long ago I'm not certain.

[dubs1856]

I'm not sure what was going on but I tried it out on another computer and it worked no problem.