Re: USB connected HDs
- From: "Jonny" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:07:17 -0600
Check the manufacturer's label on the ide hard drive(s). If Western
Digital, only maker with other than the typical 3 settings, MA/SL/CSEL. In
that case, there should be master-single/alone jumper setting by removing
the jumpers.
What adapter cable? Should be a standard cable internal to the enclosure
for ide connectivity, and a standard power cable. And, a standard USB cable
external to the enclosure to connect to the USB port. The "adaption" is
made by the enclosure's bios/translation chip.
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Jonny
"Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the ideas. I'll try that.
Do you know if there is a website that shows typical jumper settings.
Most of my drives have 3 jumper settings: MA, SL, and CS. I'm guessing MA
means master and SL means slave. But maybe SL means single? Needless to
say, I no longer have the paperwork that came with these old HDs.
I also thought maybe the adapter is defective and I should return it for
another.
Jeff
"Uwe Sieber" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some thoughts...
Move the master jumper back and forth a bit, sometimes they have
contatct problems...
Some drives have an additional setting called 'single drive' which
is then the right one of an USB adaptor.
Check in the device manager if there is an unknown USB device.
Delete it and then reattach the adaptor.
Uwe
Jeff wrote:
I purchased a Sata/IDE to USB Adapter to work with 6 old IDE hard drives
I accumulated from other PCs over the years. I connected the included
external power adapter to the HD and the USB adapter to the USB 2 ports
on a PC running XP SP2.
These PC USB ports work perfectly with other backup external HDs I own
and with USB flash drives. But: I cannot get my old HDs to show up on
the PCs using the
adapter cable.
I tried this with 2 different PCs, both running XP SP2 and had the same
problem with ALL my old IDE hardrives (set with jumper as "MA") using
the adapter, so I do not think it is a case of the HDs being bad or the
PCs and their USB ports being
bad.
What happens in all cases is:
1) the lights light up on the adapter showing it to be connected.
2) the icon showing that a USB device is connected shows on the Windows
taskbar, and when hovered on says there is a storage drive connected.
BUT,
a) no drive shows up in "My Computer", even on repeated refresh.
b) Computer management / Disk Management / does not reveal the presence
of
the USB adapter connected HD
c) Device Manager shows (under USB controllers) that a storage device is
present and enabled and working correctly.
*Do I have to do anything in XP to make My computer show the HDs
attached to the PC with the USB adapter?
Thank you.
Jeff
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