Re: [Thinkpad] OT: IDE to USB adaptor

I bought one at the local computer repair shop for my W2K desktop and
have yet to get it to work. Gonna box er all up and see if the shop can
make it work. Haven't tried it on my 600x yet (also running fully
patched W2K). The accompanying disk says it installs USB 2.0 drivers but
not to use it for W2K maintaining that drivers are native to the
OS.....It comes with a power brick and is simply a cord of some type
that connects to the USB port on one end and to a hard drive on the other.

David Ross wrote:

>>>Probably not an issue for your antique drives but IDE to USB
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>interfaces
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>>>are not all alike. I bought a couple at really great prices on eBay
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>and
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>>>found they flaked out somewhere around 150GB while some more
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>expensive
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>>>ones are still going fine with drives of over 300GB each.
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>One thing that attracted me to this one was the Dans's Data review which
>said it worked more consistently than other's he'd tried. (This assumes
>it is exactly the same as the one he reviewed, which is a matter of
>faith, as the company names are different.) There are benchmarks for
>this one here:
>http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/bytecc_bt200/index.shtml
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>>How do these adapters provide power to IDE devices? Obviously it
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>isn't
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>>going to do much good to hook up a 3.5" desktop HD externally via USB
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>if
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>>the drive doesn't have a power source?
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>For 3.5" and 5" drives it has a switching power supply which plugs into
>the drive's molex port. For 2.5" drives there is no way to get the
>power to the drive except through the pins, which means it needs a USB
>port that can supply adequate power. The built-in port on the TP is
>fine, but when using a pcmcia card one needs a powered hub.
>
>- David R.
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Received on Mon Jul 18 06:22:36 2005