On 19 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Albert Hopkins wrote:
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I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive
onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to
ata/eide cable.
It was suggested this cable:
ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic]
But being in Florida...
These are really easy to find and are currently very common from many
online vendors.
I wasn't recommending that supplier as I paid less for mine - you can
find lots of places that sell these simply by Googling "USB EIDE SATA
adaptor". Since I'm in the UK that was the first (sponsored) link I
found - I only meant it to illustrate my suggestion of "get one of
these, so you can back up".
When I search again I find the second result is a US vendor - they
should save themselves money and use Google Ad's regional settings to
exclude the likes of me: http://tekgems.com/Products/kl-usb-sata-
ide-25-35.htm
I would actually opt for an enclosure. Qalculate is telling me that
£24.95 is ~$51 USD. You can get an enclosure at Best Buy , Frys (if
they have that there) or CompUSA at around the same price ...
Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in
the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your
laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these
"adaptor cables" are very useful indeed. The link above prices them
at $17 - a price at which, IMO, you can't go wrong.
Stroller. --
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