13 Jan
2014
13 Jan
'14
3:21 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
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
I have some older bare drives with files on them that I want to access
every now and then. Most of the time I use a USB-ATA/ATAPI bridge
based on the ISD-300 (In System Design, later acquired by Cypress) and
that works fine with most of the drives. That bridge doesn't work with
a couple of the drives on various versions of Windows for reasons I
have never bothered to try to figure out.
I also have a Kingwin USI-2535 bridge and that works with the drives I
have that don't work with the other bridge.
http://kingwin.com/products/cate/accessories/adapters/usi_2535.asp
This isn't a drive power issue. I use the same external power supply
for the drives in either case.
-Glen