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June 20, 2002 at 04:39 PM
robp1

IDE drive in Firewire external case

by robp1 . Updated 23 years ago

Has anyone tried to put a std IDE (40Gb ATA100/7200rpm WD BB400) drive in an ext. firewire case?
Testing under XP Pro, Dev mgr sees the controller as a HDD controller – but no devices listed.
Disk manager of course, does not see it.
A CD-RW is fine; but not the HDD – am I being naive in expecting it to work? does a HDD need a driver of some decription?
Its really bugging,e, as I thought I had a backup solution (using removable bays).
Rob

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