Timeline for what is a PATA power port doing on my 3.5" desktop SATA HDD?
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 17:44 | history | edited | Scott Chamberlain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 13:33 | answer | added | Moab | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 13:01 | history | edited | user221238 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 12:14 | comment | added | user221238 | @AFH, unfortunately i dont remember how it was originally connected in the desktop.....disconnected it from the desktop long time back. trying to retrieve data now | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | user221238 | @AFH, yeah, i bought it around the time when SATA was being introduced for the first time....and the manufacturers would have made possible the "hybrid mode". | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | AFH | How was it connected in the desktop? I imagine you can use either power connector (but not both). As I recall there was a period when SATA was first introduced that the disc manufacturers allowed for SATA motherboards powered by older power supplies which lacked the SATA power connector. | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 12:02 | comment | added | barlop | and what model of hard drive is that? it's very interesting | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 12:01 | answer | added | barlop | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 11:58 | comment | added | barlop | It's like asking how do you contact somebody when they have two different email addresses? Try one or try the other. In this case i'd suggest perhaps not to try both unless you find that each don't work alone. What if you power it up with either PATA or SATA? | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 11:44 | history | asked | user221238 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |