SATA and A4000

[Templar]

This hardware part from AmigaKit

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=916

will work on an A4000 or not? Anyone tried that before?

 

[xc8]

I bet yes, i used a similar on a pc, it just converts the SATA to IDE.

Chris

 

[dougal]

I dont see any reason why it shouldn't work.

Try asking Amigakit

 

[Kin Hell]

At least make sure it's compatible with more modern SATAII drives. They should still be around a few years yet, but the original SATA are now virtually obselete.

Kin

 

[Harrison]

Isn't SATAII backwardly compatible with the slowed SATA1? When you normally connect an SATAII drive to an SATAI controller it works, but as the slower speed.

 

[Templar]

Isn't SATAII backwardly compatible with the slowed SATA1? When you normally connect an SATAII drive to an SATAI controller it works, but as the slower speed.

Exactly.

 

[AndyLandy]

Apparently it's possible to get SATA-I controllers that don't support SATA-II disks. I've never come up against this, but the Intarwebz claims it can happen. The standards are supposed to be backwards and forwards compatible, but whether someone's implementation is is another matter.

 

[Kin Hell]

Thanks AndyLandy.

@ phantom

My pointing out this matter to you RE: compatibility of drive technologies, is only to save you any grief, should you decide to take this route. - Check it out first.

Kin

 

[Templar]

Sure m8y.

 

[Templar]

I got the adapter yesterday.

I installed it now in my A4000 with a SATA HD and a SATA DVD-ROM, but my Amiga recognizes nothing.

Any ideas? :help:

 

[agnes1975x]

SATA

SATA

Hi phantom,

I have a 800gb SATA disk in my A4000D.

I can't boot from it, but I'm using it as a slave and must boot from the IDE.

I'm using OS3.9 and have these lines in my user-startup:
mounter u=1 >nil:
mounter u=0 >nil:

Speed is not very good, but works well. I'm using sfs.

 

[Kin Hell]

*cough*

Kin