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Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)?

From ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)?
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
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Date 2024-01-11 07:29 +0000

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In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
> > What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for 
> > connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? I tried various ones, 
> > but some don't work for newer drives and will work for older drives. 
> > Then, some work for newer drivers but not the older drives.

> The cheap one I bought off Ebay years ago, combined with a separate
> mains adapter for power, will talk to an old laptop IDE HDD from
> the early 90s, and all the SATA HDDs that I've tried. But I haven't
> tried it with any drives made very recently.

> Have you tried them on a different OS just in case it's a buggy
> driver that's limiting some of the adapters?

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What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-11 00:44 +0000
  Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-01-10 22:57 -0600
    Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-11 06:14 +0000
      Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-01-11 02:10 -0600
        Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-11 08:23 +0000
          Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-11 08:24 +0000
          Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-01-11 04:42 -0600
    Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-01-11 16:20 +1000
      Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-01-11 03:59 -0600
  Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-01-11 16:28 +1000
    Re: What's the best external USB(A&C together) adapters to get for connecting various drives (SATA, IDE/PATA, etc.)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-01-11 07:29 +0000

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