[SLUG] External hard disc cradle

[Ross Kendall]

Hi John,

The Maplin SATA USB dock looks fine to me. The fact that it mentions Mac
and Windows compatibility is a good sign. Generally this kind of thing
would be supported by generic USB Mass Storage Device drivers, although
there might be the occasional device that uses special drivers for extra
features. 

The format of the drive should be transparent, so being able to read an
EXT3 partition will depend on the operating system of the computer you
connect it to (so you will be able to read it from Linux and Mac OS X but
not from Windows without special drivers for EXT3)

Cheers,
Ross.

P.S. I didn't know hard drives these days still had jumpers on them.

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Ross Kendall
Web Developer and Consultant
http://rosskendall.com


On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:26:44 -0400, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Hi ppl
> 
> The motherboard of my main machine fell apart the other day and I
haven't
> the time or inclination to fix it .. I rather like the idea that
> everything's online all I need is an Internet connection. It's not true
> though, and I'd like quickly to get access to the HD on that machine.
> 
> So I'm looking at
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226653&C=SO&U=strat15 as a
> possible. It's a SATA disc, that much I know, but truly I'm not hardware
> minded. I did build the machine tho.
> 
> Anyway, the machine was running I hope a single volume ext3 setup.
> 
> So what are your thoughts about whether that Maplin thing will read the
> disc?
> 
> I'm thinking there must be some s/w & electronics in the cradle, and
maybe
> it will only read Windows hard disc formats or something.
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
> J
> 
> PS. I was planning on setting the disc jumpers to read only before
> plugging it in.