I want to be able to connect various IDE drives to a Linux system via USB port for backups, restores, and diagnostics such as: Is this drive good for anything other than a paper weight?
I'd hate to buy an interface and find out I need some special driver that only exists under Windows. I have used dedicated USB devices that had IDE drives in them and they worked fine all be it slo-o-owly on a USB2 port, but this would be different because each IDE drive is going to be formatted differently and be anywhere from gigabytes to 40 megabytes in capacity. If I understand things right, the IDE drive itself registers its parameters so this may not be an issue and the device should respond to mount, dd, and fdisk like any other device. I am hoping to upgrade the IDE drives on some older Linux systems from 10 GB to larger and use the USB to IDE converter to assist in transfering files and using the still functional smaller drives as archival storage. Any ideas and recommendations as to which interfaces are good or which should be avoided are appreciated. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]