In my experience bidireccional SATA to PATA adaptors are so problematic than I avoid using them. The unidirectional ones -when works- works great
Be ware than some modern SSDs (Sata III) don't work with Mac Os 9 ( as some Samsung EVO)
Hi MacTron Yes Yes Yes. The whole post has now been solved. The New Unidirectional ATA-SATA Adapter arrived from China today, I live in Thailand, USD $5.87. I put it on the SSD with one plug connection, and wished I'd put on the Apple ATA 6 Cable because, I could only mount the Kingston
KINGSTON SV300S37A120G:SATA III SSD
Capacity: 111.79 GB
Model: KINGSTON SV300S37A120G
Revision: 60AABBF0
Serial Number: 50026B777404C16A
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Mac SSD:
Capacity: 16.13 GB
Available: 11.88 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s10
Mount Point: /
Using only two mounting screws to the inside of the drive carrier and it was a tight fit and needed a lot of pressure to insert the Apple ATA100 cable to the Adapter ?
Anyway, wow, this is my first SSD. The Biderectional Adapter had been able to only write to the SSD, because when I booted up, OS9 came up first (ATA66Bus) and I could select the pre-installed version of Tiger (via the Bi-derectional Adpater, which was on the Sonnet Tempo ATA100 Card, (I can't see any use for it in the MDD now the SSD is happy and updated to 10.4.11 without a hiccup and way faster, then ever.
I don't think I would buy another mechanical HD. I am going to get some more Adapters.