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Re: USB hard disks
That doesn't sound right to me either. I have a computer in which the
installed hard drive is SATA only, and I have both my USB and Firewire drive
running with no issues.
"Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.com> wrote in message
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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>> Check your BIOS settings for your board.
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> You mean the motherboard on the PC...?
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>> 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.
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> Everything you say makes perfect sense, and would have been my reaction
> too... :-)
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> 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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