[softwarelist] Re: SATA on a RiscPC! :-) And USB?

  • From: "KiwiWebHost" <nobilangelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 22:52:02 +1200

No, the 'fantasy' was given that SATA works in a RiscPC via an IDE-to-SATA adapter, to connect a SATA-to-USB connector into that, and thus be feeding to USB devices instead of a SATA drive. 


What Andy pictured is a USB-to-SATA, and there are lots of brands of them.
The fantasy is the other way round: SATA-to-USB, taking advantage of the fact that a way has been found to drive SATA in a RiscPC. 

--

Nobilangelo.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Adams" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [softwarelist] Re: SATA on a RiscPC! :-) And USB?



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         andy.ling@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


The fantasy product I imagine is something which has a disc interface

on

one end, and lets you insert a USB mass storage device into the other.





I seem to have missed the original email, so I may have got the wrong
end of the stick, but are you talking about this sort of thing



http://www.ebuyer.com/411916-sandberg-usb-all-in-1-hard-disk-link-133-43



Plug a disk in one end and you get a USB drive.



Or are you talking about the "On the go" USB interface. I have
disk caddies that support "On the go". You put a disk drive
in the caddy. Then plug a USB mass storage device in (e.g.
the memory card from your camera), press a button and everything
on the mass storage device is copied to the disk drive.



HTH



Andy Ling
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I think what he's after has a USB input and an IDE output, so you plug
it into the motherboard interface of a RISC PS, and use USB discs.

I suspect the snag will be limitations on what IDE can handle. I think
there are significant limitations to disc size, and modern USB devices
will exceed that.

Better to get a Unipod or other USB podule and plug the disc into
that.

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