[Ham-Computers] Adding an IDE hard drive to a SATA system

[laptops]

IDE to USB adaptor easy to use and can be found cheap on the e place
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave 'Doc' Corio" <dcorio at zitomedia.net>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Adding an IDE hard drive to a SATA system 


> Thanks for all the responses!
> 
> Adding an IDE controller card is out, as I already filled the available 
> slots. It's not an old drive - just not quite new. It's an 80G drive 
> that was only used a few weeks.
> 
> As for looking at the instructions, they are sadly lacking on today's 
> new machines. I do know that the cable to the hard drive in the new 
> machine is a double, so another SATA drive could be added easily, and 
> the CD-ROM drive also has a double-tap, but not sure if that would work 
> for the extra hard-drive. I'm sure not an expert on these things!
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 73
> Dave
> KB3MOW
> 
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