3 Sep
2009
3 Sep
'09
2:42 p.m.
At 03:39 PM 9/3/2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:32 PM, John Foust wrote:
And they'll correctly identify and mount an elderly IDE that
doesn't specify its geometry when queried?
Maybe my assumptions are wrong. I tried reading two early 90s IDE
drives using two contemporary USB-to-IDE devices and it doesn't work.
The USB-to-IDE devices don't let me specify anything.
I even tried on the IDE bus of a mid-90s computer... but come to
think of it, I didn't enter the Cyl/Hd/Sec manually. I expected the
drive to be auto-recognized, but obviously it wasn't.
- John
Late 80s, early 90s IDE drives don't show up
on the IDE-to-USB
adapters I'm using for other applications these days. I assume the older
drives don't self-identify their geometry or handle newer parts of the IDE
spec that these contemporary devices depend on.
You could get an IDE PCI card..