I was asked to give a short explaination, so here it is, along with an answer for Bitor.
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Originally Posted by bitor
Well, I'm disappointed.
I'm still interested in this project.
I still think you should finish the "Why SATA.."
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You're disappointed? Think how I feel after all this effort.
I did finish the "Why" part of the conversation. It was just all the details on how to go about it I left out, and I am not going to do that part now. Too much effort for people who don't care.
The real short version of the rest is this is (and why I am dropping it);
- The only real solution (for many reasons) is to use a PATA to SATA Adapter.
- You will have to go through a crap ton of various adapters to get even close. I looked at over 100 different adapters (limited only by what might work), and ended up testing over 25 of them.
- You will find many work like crap, many work even less than crap, a few work okay, but are not reliable, and even fewer work well at all, the way they should. At least for this application.
- You will find that NONE of the adapters, much less the very few that work well, will work as a drop in solution. Modification must to be done to the adapters and/or the trays to make it work out at all.
I did all this part of the work and expense for you, including what modifications had to be done and were feasable.
To make it a drop in solution, I would need to use an electronics Fab facility to do some changes that had to be done, along with work on each adapter myself. And to do it without modifying the trays or the Snap itself in any way. Using a Fab means money. It also means to be cost effective at all, you need to do 100+ adapters. I can use X number of those myself, but the rest has to be for other people.
With only 5 people out of at least 200 (less than 3%) even bothering to reply after they read the messages, that indicates there will not be enough interest in getting the rest of the 100+ adapters done (4 per snap unit). I am sure as hell not going to front the money on my very low income (Less than 18K/year) for people who can't even bother taking a few seconds to reply.
No Interest = No Fab
No Fab = No drop in solution, at least not without 3+ hours work per adapter by me by hand
No drop in solution = No point in doing
I can do this one unit at a time for myself without the fab and recover my costs selling the unit. So no biggie. Other than 75% of my time and costs were in trying to make this a drop in solution for other people (what a waste). But in any case, there just isn't any point in doing it for only a couple people. It would not be cost effective.
There... Now you have your answers.
If someone else wants to run with it, I say have fun, and good luck. You're gonna need it...