Well with the offseason in full effect I've started to mess around with some older laptops and have run into a couple of questions: -I have a 80 gb Serial ATA (sata?) hard drive that I mistakenly bought some time ago for a IDE laptop, does anyone know of an adapter that converts SATA to IDE? I have a nicer old 15 inch screen Gateway laptop I want to use it in. -What are the Solid State Flash Card to IDE adapters? I've heard of them but am unsure if they would work on a laptop with a BIOS from 1999 (Phoenix)? I've noticed those Solid State Adapters do come in a IDE 44 pin platform and they are quite cheap at around 3 bucks, but am unsure if they would work on such an old box. The OS I'd like to set up is a XP/Linux or XP/Win98 dual boot system.
As far as I know, there are no laptop SATA to IDE converters. Solid State Flash Card? Do you mean Solid State Drive (SSD)? If so, no, those don’t work in IDE at all. The technology is too new, IDE is too old.
http://www.cooldrives.com/sahadradtoid.html Not 100% that is what I need though, the backside looks correct but cannot see the front side, I'd think the front would be larger to accommodate the 44 pins(?). What I could use is some better leads on where to start looking as Google just swamps me with Ads with little substance. http://www.opentip.com/Electronics-Computers/Cablestobuy-Cf-To-Ide-Inch-Adapter-p-1223711.html My problem with that adapter is not whether it will work, but how does it fit, or does it fit, into the old laptop hard drive caddy? I'd guess the way it would work is you simply assemble the "hard drive" with the Flash Cards, insert it into the drive bay and boot as normal and just format the things(?) with whatever OS. If that can be used then perfectly servicible old laptops (say 1000 mhz and 1 gb memory) can be recycled far more cheaply than having to buy a hard drive and caddy and the whole bit.
Oh, one of those things. I always thought those were case attachment pieces. Newegg.com. I have no idea what that is.
I suspect if it is not Apple, it does not exist in your world Des.. Not 100% sure of what I'm seeing though. Fairly simple Des, you plug in Compact Flash card(s) and the 44 pins on the front of the adapter just plugs into the 44 pins slots on the laptop motherboard...I think. Real question for is whether the device plugs directly into the laptop, or if you have to have the hard drive caddy as well. Back..*cough* *cough* in the old days, you'd have to purchase the IDE HD itself and sellers would pull the HD caddy and sell it seperately.
