Sata to Pata

[pheonix1971]

I have just came into reciept of a G52-M6580X4 motherboard it has no SATA ports on it but my hard drive and disc drive are SATA type conections, is there a way I can use my SATA drives on this pata only mother board. ie expansion card/adapter or cable

 

[Frosty is a Snowman]

yes, an ata to sata adapter, as you just suggested

 

[pheonix1971]

Excellent (im not thick then lol) thanks Frosty do you know wher eI could get one or is it just a case of shopping around ?

 

[Frosty is a Snowman]

Dabs have some - StarTech.com IDE to SATA Adaptor (PATA2SATA2) - dabs.com

And Amazon have cheaper ones
Eg. http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi...KREO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358981996&sr=8-2

You could try Ebay as well

 

[pheonix1971]

excellent thanks you are a star

 

[Frosty is a Snowman]

no problem, glad I could help

 

[pheonix1971]

yea and hopefully when I finnish my A+ cert i can help some one too