Recently, we covered an issue with connecting Zip drives that mentioned Master and Slave positions on an IDE/ATAPI bus. Essentially, if two devices are on the same bus; one must be designated the ...

Granite Digital's USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Bridge Adapter Kit lets field techs, forensic investigators and others attach a raw SATA or IDE hard disk drive to a Mac or PC using USB 2.0.

I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to back up my data. Well I took ...

Sharkoon has expanded their "QuickPort" hard drive adapter series: The Sharkoon QuickPort Combo models offer direct access of SATA drives and IDE devices to a PC or Notebook; now Sharkoon ...

Sabrent launches its new USB-C to SATA/IDE 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch, and 5.25-inch HDD adapter, a truly one-stop storage management solution for SATA, IDE drives.

The switch from IDE standard to SATA standard in hard drives has been going on for years, and at this point you'd have a hard time buying a new PC (Dell, Hewlett-Packard, or any other brand) that ...

It could be the USB port or if you are connecting through the IDE wires, then it could be a loose connection. The hard drive will not properly function if the cable isn’t properly attached.

That was back in the day when the average hard drive only provided about 200 MB of storage. IDE hard drives also use very wide ribbon cables, which tend to clog up the inside of a PC.

Well, worry no more. Thanks to the work of [dosdude1], we now have an open source solid state drive that’s designed to work with any device which originally used a 2.5 inch IDE hard drive.

Is there any limitation with the i830MP chipset? Could I slap a 160GB-250GB hard drive into this laptop and have it recognized right off?<BR>- Doug ...