From: noone@nowhere.nothere.com
On 14/12/2011 16:26, Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:
> 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)
Can you list the make and model numbers of the drives concerned?
Some very old IDE (PATA) drives may not work in some USB housings.
This seems to be a limitation of the electronics/firmware within
the USB housings themselves.
I have experienced this situation and the only workaround was to
place the drives on internal IDE (PATA) connectors in another PC to
copy the data from them onto a more modern drive.
--
Rob
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