Drive formatting

[Alfred]

There are little devices that can plug into the Connector strip of an
IDE drive that make the drive into a SATA DRIVE. This way you just put
that converted drive into your SATA Supported Confuser case, and now you
don't need to format it through a USB Port. There are even Little
devices that plug into the Connector strip of an IDE Drive, that can
make it into a USB DRIVE, these things cost about $9.00 -$15.00 each.
This is a hardware thing, that works in Winders, if Winders works???,
and it works in Linux, and other OS from else where in the Galaxy. 

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Drive formatting
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:04:22 -0500

Hi all:

I have recently upgraded to a newer machine that has only SATA ports and 
I have a number of IDE drives that are still quite useful in capacity. I 
bought an external drive case to use them through the USB port. Rather 
than reconstruct an old machine, is there a way to partition and format 
through the USB port ? I've looked through various system menus but no 
options are apparent. Suggestions ?


Bill