I posted this Mod on
NBR.
I'll Copy the mod here.
This all started back when I first found the
NBR thread and read through all the posts. I saw MrBungles posts about attempting this,
#215, #217, #228, and then no more. I got CURIOUS.
The original link was posted by MrBungle back in post #215
[quote=mrbungle;4080728]
http://www.cooldrives.com/2sahadrtoide.html
The frontal pictures in the link shows the black jumper in place. Remove it.
I ordered mine right from "Cooldrives." It was $28.19, shipped to NY. When it arrived I grabbed one of my spare sata 2.5 drives and sat down to figure out what MrBungle described in post #228, was right or wrong.
First thing, I found that the little black jumper on the face of the adapter had to be removed for proper operation. Only took 3 attempts to figure that out!! Open basket, remove carefully, unwrap, change to another drive, rewrap, restuff, etc. as no directions or spec's came in the package.
After attaching the adapter and ribbon cable then changing the shielding and putting the sata in the plastic envelope that is when the minor reengineering took over. I had to remove the small 90 deg. brace in the front of the upper cover and the two black foam blocks on the fold over cover on the envelope.
(The information on removing the brace and two foam blocks came from one of the sellers on EBAY, even though they were charging double ($45.00) for the adapter. Now I've seen it at $55.00.)
Can You say OOOuch!
EDIT: Forget removing the brace, after closer inspection it has been found that there is no binding that may involve the ribbon cable. Leave it there. The only things removed then are the two foam blocks.
I took them off carefully with a razor blade and saved for possible reinstall if it didn't work.
Carefully routing the ribbon cable, I reattached it to the mount tab on the upper cover and then "stuffed" everything back in the lower half and carefully "squeeeezed" everything back together and put the screws back in.
It is a TIGHTER Fit.
Being CAREFUL is the main point.
As soon as I put it back in the computer and powered up and went into Bios.
Bingo!!!! There was the 160 gig hd. Ran the Dos disc for partition and format,
Hello, 160 gig ready to load for XP.
Yippeee!!! It's working, it's working."
I will take pictures and submit later. It is an easy job, and won't take that much longer then changing out a regular ide drive.
At this time I had a spare 160 SATA sitting around. If Azrial has jumped his Mk4 to 320 gig, what is the possibilties for the Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3's, as I've tested the MK3 at 160 gig.
