Old IDE to USB?

[feedle at feedle.net]

> And they'll correctly identify and mount an elderly IDE that
> doesn't specify its geometry when queried?

No, they won't.  I've personally even had problems with modern on-board
IDE not working with older drives.


I wound up getting an old 486SX machine working with Linux on it just
enough to read and dump some of these older drives.  It's a pain in the
posterior, but increasingly less and less hardware knows what to do with
drives that can't be autodiscovered by the BIOS.