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Re: USB hard disks
"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Check your BIOS settings for your board.
You mean the motherboard on the PC...?
> I don't see why the firmware in the drive enclosure wouldn't communicate
> with the usb bus just fine. I can't imagine that the IDE connection in
> the enclosure would make any difference at all. The enclosure is not
> connecting to an IDE port on the box. The system should just see it as a
> mass storage device.
Everything you say makes perfect sense, and would have been my reaction
too... :-)
However, after having tried on five separate machines now, the common
denominator appears to be whether the machine has IDE drives or not. If it
has, the USB harness works - if it hasn't, it doesn't...
I'm considering installing an IDE hard disk into the new machine which
currently has only SATA drives, though the motherboard has the standard two
dual IDE channels... Doing that should prove / disprove it...
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