Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

[James Ausmus]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>wrote:

> On 2009-09-24, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com> wrote:

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> > I'm don't think that the connectors are different enough to
> > care about - I had (in a previous life/system) a PCI SATA
> > interface card that had both internal SATA and an eSATA
> > connector, and when I ran out of regular internal SATA
> > connectors, I just used a regular SATA cable, plugged into the
> > eSATA port, then ran the cable back in through an empty
> > expansion slot in the case, and hooked it up to a regular
> > internal SATA driver - worked like a champ... ;)
>
> The two connector types are supposed to be physically
> incompatible, but we'll take your word for it that you can make
> them mate.
>

It may very well be that the cheap adapter card I bought decided that having
a SATA port on the outside made it an eSATA port, as I didn't run into any
difficulty in plugging in the regular SATA cable. ;)

-James