{"id":626,"date":"2015-07-07T01:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech-g.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2015-07-13T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T00:39:11","slug":"note-on-pata-ide-1-8%e2%80%b3-2-5%e2%80%b3-compatibility-and-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/note-on-pata-ide-1-8%e2%80%b3-2-5%e2%80%b3-compatibility-and-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Note on PATA &#8211; IDE 1.8\u2033 2.5\u2033 compatibility and difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because this took a lot of research from me (Looking at specs), I am posting this here for my own reference.<\/p>\n<p>Note: CF cards will work on both 3.3V and 5V. so there is a bit of a mystery on why we need a voltage step down chip and a jumper for this particular adapter, other drives are clearly incompatible IDE interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>it turns out that when combined with a converter using the fc1307a chip to create CF out of 2 SD cards, it will not work without a voltage step down, with the wrong setting, or with cards with no step down, a computer will see the combined cards, but will fail when trying to format them for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.8<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> adapter (Sideways IDE interface) is 3.3V, the normal 2.5<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> disks are 5 Volt, the adapter we have that turns CF cards into 1.8<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> or 2.5<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> compatible drive, has a JUMPER to select, this jumper effectivly activates or deactivates the voltage step down chip (The only chip on the board)<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, 1.8<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> and 2.5<span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2033<\/span> PATA drives are not compatible regardless of the fact that the PIN interfaces are the same. the adapters with a voltage step down will work on both, but you need to set them up first with a JUMPER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because this took a lot of research from me (Looking at specs), I am posting this here for my own reference. Note: CF cards will work on both 3.3V and 5V. so there is a bit of a mystery on why we need a voltage step down chip and a jumper for this particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}