<div dir="ltr">Sharon,<div><br></div><div>I've used this ( <a href="http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-external/harddriveenclosures/Novatech/6619US3.html">http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-external/harddriveenclosures/Novatech/6619US3.html</a> ) sort of thing before.</div><div><br></div><div>Just gogle for SATA drive dock to find loads of different ones, and they just work(tm), as</div><div>the SATA connection is relatively low insertion force and will specified positioning.</div><div><br></div><div>In terms of drivers, it just advertises USB mass storage - So there no drivers or anything needed.</div><div><br></div><div>For PATA, you probably want to look at what Alex posted the link to. I don't see the driver situation being much different. The only thing to be aware of iis on PATA CD/DVD/etc used a slightly different command set to harddiscs and back in the day I found some usb enclosures would only work with one or the other.</div><div><br></div><div>IIRC, the SATA command set and the ATAPI command set are both derived more closely form SCSI than the original ATA command set was , so I suspect a device which claims to do both SATA and PATA hardiscs will also cope with CD/DVD/etc drives.</div><div><br></div><div>When you say the maplin product would access IDE drives is that because tit didn't have the connectors or did it seem to be a command set thing. ? Was it advertised as being compatible with PATA harddiscs?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 July 2016 at 18:20, Sharon Kimble via Kent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Can anyone recommend a USB drive caddy that can read primarily IDE<br>
drives, and a couple of SATA drives please? It must be able to be<br>
recognised by Debian 8, and able to read the IDE drives.<br>
<br>
I have about 15 IDE drives that I want to access, and a couple of SATA<br>
drives.<br>
<br>
I have tried one from maplins which was able to read the SATA drives<br>
very easily but it wasn't able to access the IDE drives at all.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Sharon.<br>
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