Older IDE hard drive to USB

Somewhere around the 500MB size IDE drives switched to EIDE (using 28 bit LBA for cylinders/heads/etc). I think those USB to IDE adapters have no clue what to do with drives that do not have LBA support. -----Original Message----- From: Kyle Owen Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 3:55 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Older IDE hard drive to USB I bought a cheap USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge a while back and have had a good bit of luck connecting various IDE drives to my laptop for imaging purposes. However, I have a few drives that simply won't mount under Windows or OS X, despite being detected by the Device Manager in the case of Windows. It seems to be narrowed down to the smaller drives, like under 2 GB or so. For instance, I have a Maxtor 7213AT 210 MB drive that won't mount, although an 80 GB Seagate has no trouble at all. The Maxtor is a known-good, bootable MS-DOS 6.22 drive. Has anyone encountered this? Besides connecting it to a motherboard with built-in IDE, are there workarounds? Thanks, Kyle --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com