On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:06:01 -0800, Steve Urbach   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:28:00 -0600, Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>   My XPPro machine (with all updates to date) does not recognize nor   
   >>make useable IDE external drives connected via USB port.   
   >>  How/where can I get USB drivers for USB attached IDE drives.   
   >>   
   >> I have 3 different vintage IDE drives none of which are readable   
   >>on my machine (the drives are good an I can hear them spinning)   
   >Once the drive (USB,SATA) is in a USB enclosure, all OS consider it a USB   
   >(removable) drive.   
   >USB drives do not normally need 3rd party drivers on XP.   
   >If the drive was formerly part of a RAID set, you may need to do some (??)   
   >tricks to reformat. (Some disk utilities still show one of my, now USB drives,   
   >as part of a RAID set. It was a part of a (broken) Mirror set, so it works.   
   >   
   >So the big question: Does any USB storage wok on your system in that port?   
   >   
   >BTW your drive can NOT be jumpered as SLAVE. CS or Master only   
      
      
     USP "thumb" drives and USB floppys work fine .And SD cards are   
   recogfnized and read.   
     All three are "master" -- the only hard drive in the computer from   
   which they came (win 3.1, 95 and ME)   
      
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