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First post, by darry

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Just thought I would let people know about this combo .

- Card BIOS only takes 6K conventional memory, 4k less than a SIL3114
- LBA48 capable
- Works with rloew's trim.exe for SSDs (with my Samsung 860EVO 500GB)
-In HDTach, hits 90MB/second sustained read performance at 10% CPU use on P3 1400MHz, which is faster than a SIL3114 native SATA card (80MB/second something) on the same system (same CPU use) .

The same JMD330 also works on my board's integrated ICH2 ATA66 IDE controller at 50MB/second and 5% CPU (had to enable DMA). Trim also works in that setup . My 815 industrial mainboard has a BIOS from 2006 that properly detects 127GB+ drives, this is likely not the case for other 815 boards .

EDIT: Maybe I should have postet in this thread :
Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience
Also, my unbranded JMD330 is from 10 years ago (bought it for on old PVR)

EDIT2/3 : See issue with TRIM.EXE issue with FreeDOS's FDISK in this thread --> Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK

Reply 1 of 3, by cde

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Many thanks Darry. Do you know if this adapter is still available for sale? I had a bad personnal experience with a PATA2SATA adapter so I gave up on the possibility it could work, but I guess I was wrong 😉

Last edited by cde on 2020-07-11, 15:04. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 2 of 3, by darry

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cde wrote on 2020-07-11, 14:48:

Many thanks Darry. Do you know if this adapter is still available for sale? I had a bad personnal experience with a PATA2SATA adapter so I gave up on thr possobility it could work.

The SinLoon brand Jmicron JM20330 based ones that I bought recently on Amazon are still available . The preliminary tests that I ran with those were extremely positive .

EDIT: Depending on disk size and controller BIOS capability ( LBA28, LBA48 , etc) , you may still experience issues unrelated to the actual converter . I have only used mine on LBA48 capable controllers (ICH2 with proper BIOS and Promise Ultra133 TX2).

Last edited by darry on 2020-07-11, 15:07. Edited 1 time in total.