I think the from's and to's are being used the right way round (at this end of the world), but I have noticed that different brands use them in opposite ways. Perhaps Lilliput is messing about again...
But however you put it you are right. An IDE-to-SATA adapter plugs into the IDE connection on the computer then into a SATA drive. The 'fantasy', a SATA-to-USB connector ,would connect to the SATA end of that first adapter. So starting from the computer end there would be IDE to SATA to USB.
The point of the wished-for fantasy is that USB podules for the RiscPC are scarce, and extremely expensive, and are only level 1, and use up a podule slot, and there are only four slots. If the fantasy were possible, USB in a RiscPC would be very easy to set up and very cheap.
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To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:20 PM Subject: [softwarelist] Re: SATA on a RiscPC! :-) And USB?
In message <BC73BBF9C00E41239138387C4E4D54AF@NobilangeloPC> "KiwiWebHost" <nobilangelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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 feedingto 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.What's confusing is that you are using "to" and "from" in the opposite way to convention. It's always "from" device "to" computer. An IDE to SATA adapter allows an IDE disc to connect to a SATA interface. You are talking about using a SATA to IDE adapter to connect SATA discs to the IDE interface in an RPC, then stacking a USB to SATA adapter to allow USB devices to connect via that to the IDE interface. Since podules already exist to connect USB devices to RPC, I don't see the point, particularly as you will hit the limitations on the IDE interface, which using a podule bypasses.--Nobilangelo.----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Adams" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:25 PM Subject: [softwarelist] Re: SATA on a RiscPC! :-) And USB?In message <OF940386CE.F99C54BA-ON80257CD7.0034B4D0-80257CD7.00352EB0@ Quantel.Com> andy.ling@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:The fantasy product I imagine is something which has a disc interfaceonone 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 thinghttp://www.ebuyer.com/411916-sandberg-usb-all-in-1-hard-disk-link-133-43Plug 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.HTHAndy LingTo unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpillingI 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. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nckc.org.uk/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpillingTo unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling-- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nckc.org.uk/To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling
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