3 Sep
2009
3 Sep
'09
6:19 p.m.
At 05:06 PM 9/3/2009, feedle at feedle.net wrote:
Has anyone ever seen a USB-to-IDE adapter that can handle the old drives
and devices, presumably by allowing you to specify the Cyl/Hd/Sec?
After reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA , I'm surprised
to see that although IDE drives appeared in the late 80s, the ATA-1
standard didn't arrive until 1994.
Based on the chart there, I'm guessing that today's USB-to-IDE devices
(as well as near-recent onboard IDE) simply don't support the old PIO
transfers and only handle the post-1998 ultra DMA transfers?
- John
And
they'll correctly identify and mount an elderly IDE that
doesn't specify its geometry when queried?
No, they won't. I've personally even had problems with modern on-board
IDE not working with older drives.