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Sonnet's Tempo Bridge . . .

Sonnet's Tempo Bridge . . . Peripherals 13 posts Nov 18, 2013 — Jun 11, 2025

#1 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 22:04

. . . liberated just in case I ever decide to update the username to a more Mac appropriate Trash80toG-5 . . .

. . . and to running Classic under Tiger. ;D

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_bridge.html

You never know, I may find a local G5 for less money than PSU/shipping for fixing up the DA or QS'02. [}

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#2 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 22:27

Interesting, but exactly why would you want to use an older, slow IDE hard drive in a machine that can take a native SATA anyway?

I have an adapter that converts a SATA HD to IDE to run in older machines.

#3 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 22:44

I used to know a hardware guru that would use those SATA->IDE bridges for "torture-testing" new SATA-equipped hardware. (Part of his job was working on device drivers and improving the error-resiliency of same.) He'd use them instead of "real" SATA drives because they were so good at producing spurious errors for his drivers to have to handle.

#4 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 22:50

Fastest way to move data from an old system to your new G5

I might add: easiest way to do incremental HDD->HDD data backup a/o move new data onto an older machine . . .

. . . and it's a cool toy I nabbed at half the going rate that I can use on the AtomicNetTop right away. [

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Speaking of B@$$-ackwards, does anyone know of an adapter to run a PS/2 KBD/Mouse cable off a USB K/M input? Going the other way costs pennies, but I'd like to run older stuff off the KVM setup at my main workstation and I've already got the PS/2->ADB conversion covered.

#5 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 23:05

Speaking of B@$$-ackwards, does anyone know of an adapter to run a PS/2 KBD/Mouse cable off a USB K/M input? Going the other way costs pennies, but I'd like to run older stuff off the KVM setup at my main workstation and I've already got the PS/2->ADB conversion covered.

Huh. It does exist, but whoa Nelly, it's not cheap.

#6 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 - 23:14

< gasps for air > 8-o I figured it'd cost a bit, but that's just a bit more than a bit. I'll either have to put up with redundant I/O clutter or go back to the PS/2->USB converters on the NetBook & Pismo and that PITA IR wireless Logitech K/M rig. That's fine for the old-school collection at the easy chair, but I don't really wanna go there on the desktop.

#7 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 - 07:08

I really <3 Sonnet!

After two years and close to six months months spent procrastinating over the purchase of a real SATA drive for this Intel NetTop board, it's up and running thanks to this elegant little doojihickey from my favorite Accelerator company . . . since the Jobsian hammer dispatched radius to MacValhallah anyway, along with most of the rest of the Clone makers . . .

. . . whatever, the aTOMICnETtOP™ has been remixed and boots to more than just a live session form the 9.10 NetBook CD! [

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#8 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 - 22:18

SATA<>PATA bridges really aren't anything special. The standard was designed for them in mind.

The first SATA drives were just PATA units with adapters integrated into the PCB. Could you believe that was 10 years ago already?

#9 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 - 23:21

Yep, got a couple pieces of Chinese Costume Jewelry for peanuts, no instructions . . .

. . . now that I see how one is supposed to work I can retest the Asian trinkets.

I LOVE all that cheap stuff coming out of China on eBay, but it's not always clear how the heck it's supposed to be used, even when there are instructions included.