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hakfoolast Saturday at 5:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

PATA-SATA adapters, the $3 AliExpress kind, seem to handle CHS fine. I have dumps of 40Mb and 200Mb drives from such adapters.


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bogantechtoday at 6:38 PM

With a PATA-SATA bridge support for CHS is up to the BIOS / OS

With a USB adapter though it's up to the adapter itself to support that which they generally don't do

snvzzlast Sunday at 5:37 PM

What interface chip is this? Can you elaborate?

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