I am attempting to add a 1TB SATA drive to an older PATA machine using a connector/adapter. The new drive is a Western Digital Green…
The web instructions say that the SATA slave comes by default as CSEL. Further, that if CSEL isn’t supported by the machine, a special CSEL cable should be used. Isn’t it possible to just attach the SATA connector to the middle of the data cable and jumper it to slave? Will that work? (Don’t have the machine here in the shop…house call later on!). The machine is a Dell Dimension 8300.
