Old IDE to USB?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Sat Sep 5 18:33:34 CDT 2009


John Foust wrote:
> Any advice for USB-based reading of old drives on new equipment?

Don't try.  Read them on older equipment.  386s and 486s are, for all 
intents and purposes, free.  Grab one and read your data, then plug in a 
drive that DOES work with USB adapters and do a transfer.
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