Rosewill RC-A-SATA-IDE SATA to IDE Adapter

Pros: Worked. Have and older Dell that's IDE, SATA drives are way cheaper, through a 1TB SATA HDD in using this baby, was fast simple, have transferred about 200GB of info so far with no problem

Cons: None

Overall Review: Computer read drive right away

Pros: Well-built and easy to use, when it works.

Cons: Works for a while, and then the computer simply freezes. No crashdump, no blue-screen, nothing. It's like it hits an interrupt and stops the clock. Reboot brings everything back, but the problems persist. I bought the adapter (several months ago) to use with a Lite-On DVD writer that I purchased at the same time. I've used the writer externally through USB and it works great. Not internally on the IDE line, though. I did try using the original DELL IDE cable (I had switched because the differing lengths of the optical drive enclosures doesn't work with the short-distance DELL cable). I noticed that the DELL cable has a deliberate cut in line 27 (IOCHRDY) but that made no difference.

I guess I'll be calling the tech support line to see if they have any answers. I am troubled by the fact that one reviewer said that these adapters are not for use with DVD burners. There is no documentation on that...

Overall Review: I have also tried various suggestions: taping and isolating the adapter with electrical tape, trying various combinations of the master/slave/cable-select jumpers, swapping the pysical location on the cable, using various other IDE drives in combination with the SATA drive, only using the DVD burner to read CDs, etc. etc. Nothing seems to make ANY difference!