hd cable adaptor for ata

[renatoabenojar]

i got a maxtor 200gb ata hd. but my motherboard dosent have an ata hookup.
i know there is a pci card adaptor but it was about 35 bucks. and ive seen a cable that goes from ata to ide(i think thats the name of it, you know the one that most internal drives used before ata) but it said that its for a western digital drives and only 5 bucks. i went to the maxtor site and they didnt have a cable that adapts. so dose anyone know if theres a generic cable that works with maxtor that goes from ata to ide?

[EzyStvy]

I'm confused.

ATA

Short for Advanced Technology Attachment, a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. There are several versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee:

ATA: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2.

ATA-2: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1 and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE).

ATA-3: Minor revision to ATA-2.
Ultra-ATA: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps.

ATA/66: A version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported by Intel, that doubles ATA's throughput to 66 MBps.

ATA/100: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer rates to 100 MBps.

ATA also is called Parallel ATA. Contrast with Serial ATA.

[RJ]

Yep. ATA and IDE are the same. Just use the 80-ribbon cable to connect hard drive to motherboard.

Or do you mean SATA ? SATA is ATA, too, of course, just a new, serial, version of it. To be exact, SATA is IDE as well... I think it's just because parallel ATA has been around since the beginning people got used to call it IDE, so that they only associate IDE to Parallel ATA and not to SATA as well.
The SATA hard drive has a small connector for a 7-pin cable. There are adapters to connect a SATA hard drive to a parallel ATA port. So if that is what you need, they do exist.

RJ

[renatoabenojar]

ok i see, then i need serial ata to convert to paralell ata. do you know a site that has them or a manufactors name? thanks.

[RJ]

I know that Abit offers one: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/multimedia/multimedia.php?pFUN_KEY=3000&pTITLE_IMG=images/media.gif

There are others too but I don't know them right now.

RJ

[renatoabenojar]

ok sorry but i forgot to mention this also but my motherboard dosent have a raid conector. port ide1 and 2 are for parralell, the optional ide3 and serial1 and 2 are for sata. so even if i do get a cable that goes from sata to paralell ata will the mother board accept it and run the drive?

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Yes, raid is for running two drives together with special functions, such as mirroring, you do not need it.

[glc]

Please clarify - is the drive you are trying to install PATA or SATA? What model is your motherboard? What devices are already connected and on which controllers?