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uh oh (trouble with Maxtor hard drive)
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jer446 said:
Uhmm..
Let's review.
1) You have a SATA 250GB HD.
2) You have an enclosure.
An SATA enclosure? You want to "get the connector to fit".. what connector?
Anyway, if the enclosure is ATA, you're not going to magically make an SATA drive "fit". Best to return the HD or the enclosure and try again.
jer446 said:
Physically? Probably. Functionally? Probably not. AFAIK, SATA is backwards compatible with PATA but PATA is not forwards compatible with SATA.
I think you're going to have to follow Yellow's suggestion and replace either the enclosure or the drive.
No, It won't work. You'll need to return one of the items.....probably the hard drive since I don't know of any USB/Firewire enclosures that can take a SATA drive. The only external SATA enclosures I've seen are eSATA enclosures that require an eSATA PCI card to connect them to.
Make sure that whatever hard drive you get to replace this one is parallel ATA (also called PATA or just ATA), not serial ATA (SATA).
On the plus side PATA drive are a bit cheaper....
Make sure that whatever hard drive you get to replace this one is parallel ATA (also called PATA or just ATA), not serial ATA (SATA).
On the plus side PATA drive are a bit cheaper....
There are many USB/Firewire SATA drives on newegg, but i would just replace the drive, PATA is cheaper and maybe with the money you save you can get a bigger drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=92&Submit=Property
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=92&Submit=Property
http://froogle.google.com/froogle_c...G=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en
you could use one of them, i know a few people that use one to run a 10k raptor in a g4 cube.
you could use one of them, i know a few people that use one to run a 10k raptor in a g4 cube.
Hector said:
Is there another one you were trying to link? The device you linked seems to go in the opposite direction...putting a PATA drive onto a SATA bus:
Physically, there is unlikely to be enough room in the case to put an adaptor between the drive and the IDE connector.Hector said:
sorry, here one is http://froogle.google.com/froogle_c...G=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en
as as for the cube, you'd be suprised at what you can fit in a g4 cube, in mine i have a 400GB HD dual 1.7GHz 47's a radeon 9700 1.5GB ram and an airport card
as as for the cube, you'd be suprised at what you can fit in a g4 cube, in mine i have a 400GB HD dual 1.7GHz 47's a radeon 9700 1.5GB ram and an airport card
Hector said:
Mmm, that's american. I tried the same search on froogle.google.co.uk
http://froogle.google.co.uk/froogle...G=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en
and got:
google said:
If I bought a couple of these, I could be nearly as rich as Gates! Try it for yourself and see
.. RedTomato ..