Is it possible to connect a SATA III HDD to a very old motherboard?

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Maxim Kudryavtsev2017-09-17 01:50:26

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Maxim Kudryavtsev, 2017-09-17 01:50:26

Good day to all.
I took for nothing a rather old system unit, in which the Albatron KM 400 PRO motherboard is installed in conjunction with some kind of Athlon of the first series. DDR1 RAM. The problem I'm having is the IDE hard drive is dead. The system seems to determine it, but the number of bad sectors per 40 GB is such that nothing starts from it at all. Ubuntu 14.04 boots normally from a flash drive, you can surf the net.
After some thought, I decided that I can take any new HDD, say Toshiba P300 1GB with SATA III interface and connect it via a SATA <=> USB adapter to the motherboard.
Logically, in my opinion, this is good and there should not be any problems. The only thing that confuses me is the volume of the screw1TB . Will the motherboard chipset consider this HDD "faulty" due to the fact that hard drives of this size simply did not exist in the mid-2000s? Share your thoughts. Maybe someone had a similar experience?

Why stress so much

Nastolgia... I want to install WinXP + Doom + Vice City and remember my school years, when everything lagged and froze... You can, of course, start the whole thing under VirtualBox, however, my Core i7 3770 will take everything out without lags, with good drawing and detailing, which does not fit at all with my school years ...

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Trotilla, 2017-09-17
@Trotilla

The biggest problem if you connect via USB is not the fact that it will want to boot from USB.
Everything else is contrived.

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xmoonlight, 2017-09-17
@xmoonlight

You buy a SATA III PCI controller and the problem is solved.

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ipswitch, 2017-09-17
@ipswitch

Don't use USB.
DO NOT USE USB!
DO NOT USE USB!!!
If you really can't wait for SATA - take something like this:
https://www.dns-shop.ru/catalog/17a89bb916404e77/k...
https://www.citilink.ru/catalog/computers_and_note...
Similar PCI controllers can be bought for a penny or found for free.
But I would advise you to buy an inexpensive working IDE disk. There are a lot of them for mere pennies. There are those that are in perfect shape and will work for many more years.

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evgeniy_lm, 2017-09-17
@evgeniy_lm

No need to invent a fox. Buy (or ask someone for thanks) bu IDE and don't fool your head

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liks, 2017-09-17
@liks

Mmm albatron ...
most likely bios will not be able to load your disk normally in usb 2.0 mode and will start loading it in 1.1, it feels like from a floppy disk, after which you, after a long search, will exit to the ploop bootloader, which may try to activate usb 2.0 before booting the system, but given that this is an albatron, it is unlikely that it will work, so I advise you to buy a pci controller

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Kolya K, 2017-09-17
@Kolyagrozamorey

There are many PCs of this class at work. We solve the problem with the lack of SATA ports with this converter
www.delock.de/produkte/G_61635/merkmale.html?setLa...
There are no problems.

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murzik_a, 2017-09-17
@murzik_a

I don’t know about GTA, but doom on modern systems runs through ports just fine. Yes, and the first one, I'm sure, will also start without any problems. So there is absolutely no point in suffering.
And, I'm sorry, I overlooked what you need, so that everything slows down ... You can look for hards on Avito IDE, you can still find live ones. The main thing is to check on the spot.