Re: [PLUG] External drive casing for EIDE HD

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

Adam,

As far as I know EIDE is dead--everything I've seen in the last few years is SATA.. I'm hardly a PC expert.

Though if I bought a new PC and I had an operational 300gb drive from an old PC I'd just buy an IDE controller and put it in the new machine.  Does your machine have a PCI slot? (am I dating myself?)  If it does newegg has a few IDE controllers for not much money:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007607%20600022623&IsNodeId=1&name=IDE

Actually, here's one that visually seems to support IDE, though it's no where in the specs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124042

-morgan



On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Adam Zion wrote:

> I just got my first new PC- as in one I purchased new, rather than
> inherited or assembled from spare parts- in 15 years. It's a
> linux-specific box from System76. It's quite nice, but I failed to
> understand that it is SATA-only, without any EIDE ports whatsoever. I
> have already ordered a SATA DVD/RW drive, but I need an external USB
> drive casing to reuse the 300 GB drive from my old PC. Does anybody
> have an EIDE-compatible drive housing I could use, or recommendations
> for a model to buy?
> 
> Many thanks,
> -Z
> 
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