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

In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Computer Nerd Kev <[email protected]> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant <[email protected]> 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?

Yup.
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