Elia1995 wrote:

Mine has perfect soldering, that must be one unlucky guy 🤣

The soldering on mine was perfect (after I fixed it).

386SX wrote:

Well, my doubts on these are the logical concept itself of using an adapter directly connected and supported only by iron soldering. Maybe I was unlucky but usually if I buy something that works until some point and then I buy another one that stop working too, generally I'm supposed to think that it's not a seller problem.
By the way I don't think every adapters could have problems. For myself I will prefer a PCI controller that cost more.

That's certainly a valid concern. When mine arrived, I did some beefing up of the soldering on the strain relief for the IDE header. I suspect the SATA side is fairly robust, as SATA/SAS + power connectors have to take quite a bit of physical stress in hot swap applications.

gdjacobs wrote:

That's certainly a valid concern. When mine arrived, I did some beefing up of the soldering on the strain relief for the IDE header. I suspect the SATA side is fairly robust, as SATA/SAS + power connectors have to take quite a bit of physical stress in hot swap applications.

That's not my experience at all. I've never broken an IDE connector. But I have broken quite a few SATA connectors, both on motherboards and hard drives. In fact that's one of my main beefs with SATA. The connectors are too flimsy.

Well, eventually mine will be permanently attached to a hot swap bay. Maybe I'll fashion a spacer and tape the adapter in place.

gdjacobs wrote:

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Elia1995 wrote:

Mine has perfect soldering, that must be one unlucky guy 🤣

The soldering on mine was perfect (after I fixed it).

386SX wrote:

Well, my doubts on these are the logical concept itself of using an adapter directly connected and supported only by iron soldering. Maybe I was unlucky but usually if I buy something that works until some point and then I buy another one that stop working too, generally I'm supposed to think that it's not a seller problem.
By the way I don't think every adapters could have problems. For myself I will prefer a PCI controller that cost more.

That's certainly a valid concern. When mine arrived, I did some beefing up of the soldering on the strain relief for the IDE header. I suspect the SATA side is fairly robust, as SATA/SAS + power connectors have to take quite a bit of physical stress in hot swap applications.

The first two I bought weren't cheap and soldering of the ic and components was good, but the same problem of the sata connector stressed by the adapter/ide cable. I also taped it to fix it and not let any movements of cables or the case, but at the end I think it is probably not useful too.Maybe it was thought it was better the adapter unmounting itself instead to remain attached to the sada disk risking the iron beetwen f the connector to the adapter.
My experience with Sata controller was better but not better on compatibility cause cd boot could not work and ssd on win9x seems to have problem after some time (with that solution).

Apparently my copy of MS-DOS 6.22 sees the SATA HDD, but OS/2 doesn't let me make any partition on the free space. OS/2 Warp 3.
I get all the options "blued"-out (instead of greyed out)