Impossible to use PATA drives in Mac Pro, right?

I've got more 500 GB PATA drives than I have sense, but they are in RAID drive enclosures with loud fans. Can they be installed inside of the Mac Pro?

I've seen SATA/PATA converters for sale in computer stores, so technically it could probably be made to work. It certainly wouldn't be a "nice" installation in the Mac Pro, however.
No reason you shouldn't be able to use one of the PATA drives on the same bus as the DVD drive (with an appropriate 5.25-to-3.5-inch adapter, something that should be fairly easy to find at one of those "build it yourself" type computer stores), though I'm not sure whether this bus is ATA/133 or something slower (System Profiler doesn't say). It may not use the full speed of a fast hard drive.
Probably your best use of these drives is to stick them in good-quality Firewire enclosures.

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