[Klug-general] USB drive caddy?

[Sharon Kimble]

Roger Gammans <rgammans at gammascience.co.uk> writes:

> Sharon,
>
> I've used this ( http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-external/harddriveenclosures/Novatech/6619US3.html ) sort of thing before.
>
> Just gogle for SATA drive dock to find loads of different ones, and they just work(tm), as
> the SATA connection is relatively low insertion force and will specified positioning.
>
> In terms of drivers, it just advertises USB mass storage  - So there no drivers or anything needed.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

Thanks Roger. This is what I tried from maplin
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/25-inch-and-35-inch-sata-ide-usb-dock-with-hub-and-card-reader-a05jy
which was not able to read my IDE drives at all. It read the DATA drives okay, but not my IDE drives.

Thanks
Sharon.

>
> On 25 July 2016 at 18:20, Sharon Kimble via Kent <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>     Can anyone recommend a USB drive caddy that can read primarily IDE
>     drives, and a couple of SATA drives please? It must be able to be
>     recognised by Debian 8, and able to read the IDE drives.
>    
>     I have about 15 IDE drives that I want to access, and a couple of SATA
>     drives.
>    
>     I have tried one from maplins which was able to read the SATA drives
>     very easily but it wasn't able to access the IDE drives at all.
>    
>     Thanks
>     Sharon.
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