Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) It has a seperate power cable that plugs straight into the wall outlet. --andrew -- GnuPG Key ID:

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/08/08 12:37, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) Not really, since I'm not clued in to each and every USB

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/08/08 12:37, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) Not really, since I'm not clued in to

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/08/08 13:08, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/08/08 12:37, Andrew Henry wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ATA converter cable? Where does the power come from? I've only heard of HDDs in external USB enclosures. The fact that it works on WinXP should've given you a clue :) Not

detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Henry
I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK when I boot into Windows. Does the USB to

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/07/08 14:43, Andrew Henry wrote: I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Gifford
Andrew Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK