Chris Elvidge wrote:
On 26/07/2020 10:37 pm, nospam wrote:
In article , micky
wrote:

My DVDR, a Philips DVDR3575H, was designed around a 160GB PATA drive.

When the drive fails, what are the odds I can replace it with a larger
drive? How much larger? ;-)

reasonably high.

What are the odds I can use a SATA drive intead of PATA? (Sillly
question, since they still sell PATA drives, but silly is my middle
name.)

low, but not zero.

they are two different interfaces, so you will need an adapter, which
takes up space and means the drive+adapter won't fit in a drive bay
designed for just a drive unless there's extra space, which is highly
unlikely.

See:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VGEBY-Inter.../dp/B06XW6LN6T


Package Dimensions 13 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm

And it has the Master/Slave jumper, so you can put two of those
adapters on a motherboard IDE ribbon cable. If using just one
adapter, put it on the end of the cable and set to Master.

X---------------X-----X
Adpt Adpt
Slave Master
| |
SATA SATA

What I don't know, is who makes that chip. It could be
a Sunplus but I can't be sure. The suppliers of these things
are different than in older days. The other chip makers bowed out
of the market. The one I've got has a Marvell chip (and Marvell
has stopped doing a number of older items). Everyones gotta
eat, I guess.

https://www.tivocommunity.com/commun...416883/page-12

Paul