will this work

[oldman420]

place a converter at both ends of a sata cable and plug it in to the drive and the board will this work?
it would be nice to be able to use skinny sata cables with my ide drives

 

[AbsolutDealage]

This is not highly technical, and no, I don't think it will work.

 

[NewBlackDak]

That sounds nuts!! Try it.

 

[imported_devnull]

No it will not work, at least with such a simple scheme...

What may work (I think some motherboard manifacturers already provide it) is a SATA to PATA converter, so that you can plug your IDE drive in a SATA controller.