September 11, 200817 yr i have 2 sata hard drives and 2 sata to ide convertors.i want to connect the sata to ide convertors to the ide motherboard ide socket but i can only do this for one sata hard drive.the only other way would be to disconnect the ide cable from cd-rom from the second ide socket on motherboard which i do not want to do.normally on a ide cable you can connect TWO ide hard drives on the same cable...the black and grey 40 pin connectors.i want to know if i replaced the 2 male 40 pin ide connectors on the ribbon cable with female 40 pin ide connectors would i then be able to plug in the male 40 pin connectors from the SATA TO IDE convertors attached to the sata hard drives.once again can i replace the male 40 pin ide connectors with female connectors then plug in the male connectors from the sata to ide connectors one into black and one into the the grey?would this work?would the computer be ok or would it blow up.is it dangerous?
September 11, 200817 yr It's not exactly Dangerous but it is not going to work.SATA drives are meant as single units and single cables...Actually I even earlier today spent an hour researcing the possiblity of 2 sata drives on one cable in any way possible...Everywhere I looked and every way i searched came up with a NO.Sorry but you CAN get a PCI card that will give you more ports if thats what you really need...
September 11, 200817 yr Well, If you SATA->IDE converter handles either cable select or Master/Slave jumpers you should be able to hook two converters to single dual connector IDE cable. But it will be a function of the converter whether it will do it or not. I have a couple hooked up this way on occasion for data transfer when my SATA system is not available do to other work.
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