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PATA-SATA adapters, the $3 AliExpress kind, seem to handle CHS fine. I have dumps of 40Mb and 200Mb drives from such adapters.

• snvzz 7mo ago
  What interface chip is this? Can you elaborate?
  • Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
    There are also PATA SSD that are a bit more reliable, and fit the standard mount on older laptops. Because some models include several workarounds for older equipment (automatic wear leveling), these can last quite some time even with an OS that never supported SSD (turn off swap when possible). If it is something important like old equipment, a CompactFlash SLC card with a PATA adapter is a proven solution. Usually it is better to drop an old OS image into a 86box, and make the recovered backing image read-only. =3
    • snvzz 7mo ago
      These are entirely different use cases. I already use IDE-SATA adapters, IDE-CF adapters, IDE-SD adapters, FlashFloppy and what not. ATAboy is about accessing early IDE HDD on current computers. My question was which usb-ide chipsets are known to handle CHS (and not just LBA).
      • Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
        Indeed, I also went through the ddrescue trial-and-error process with USB adapters to avoid large file corruption bugs, BIOS specific setup quirks, and proprietary controller remapping (seagate.) Ultimately, it was almost always better to pull the disk image on the original hardware when possible, or use a legacy 32bit x86 PC to direct access the drive controller when BIOS doesn't support the drive. Best of luck =3
• bogantech 7mo ago
  With a PATA-SATA bridge support for CHS is up to the BIOS / OS With a USB adapter though it's up to the adapter itself to support that which they generally don't do