John Summerfield wrote:
Can I run a SATA disk with an ATA controller? One of my disks is about to die, and I've been looking for a large - say 500GB or larger - disk, and all the ones I see seem to be SATA.
I suggest you look a little harder for an old-fashioned ATA drives, they're fairly easy to buy around these parts. I can get a 750 Gbyte ATA-6 from where I usually shop.
Yes, thanks, that is the way I have decided to go. I hope the disk lasts long enough to transfer the data ... Smartd has been saying it will die in the next 24 hours for over a week.