From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqvEc-0000yQ-SJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:48:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DB2AE084E; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f184.google.com (mail-px0-f184.google.com [209.85.216.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC2AE084E for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi14 with SMTP id 14so2659909pxi.3 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:48:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=tnligI0d4vZgpCiEkdlycqr0dt1adj32wPRpIXvyAN4=; b=Lnx6VFFgBXE0KIM2+S1ZpAgOog2Ps/46IdNKqBq/c7G6YlkQrmjYdCCtJuINcdYN9d nxB6XYD1beGI0iJhf0Ryf5AK/XMNcuvZvNrGlsyMjxTGQWCfa5cLED19V7ti73GLpqME 3fW86yS69ey9BnTQ1S12HtPSkujG+wMA3VhIc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ms8e0yHDtD+IOM6EKoIP6Czr6eM60lTD1BZ1qLwYFyFNIjN1PlqcFb+D9keIWem9k9 7CNOMgkeyL/UnVA8gS0WcXJNlStDZ7ixuk+1EdYpd4vRRjr9X8ysA8S0+zLBiM8uak9F syzWYFmK6mGXG5PMxlnS0eFXqNteOxqHno3vI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.3.37 with SMTP id 37mr283021wfc.146.1253825292644; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:48:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> <4ABBC2A0.6080200@badapple.net> <4ABBC89B.4050400@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909241237g706b17f0t515af5c439998a12@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:48:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. From: James Ausmus To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00504502c14d2db3df047458f3ad X-Archives-Salt: d8c68888-e19b-4096-9a2b-5f0b243c6720 X-Archives-Hash: bf0fff48c50f5b6030c2ed0fa7717c6c --00504502c14d2db3df047458f3ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-09-24, James Ausmus wrote: > > 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 --00504502c14d2db3df047458f3ad Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Grant E= dwards <g= rant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2009-09-24, James Ausmus <j= ames.ausmus@gmail.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=A0

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