Drive formatting

[William Frick]

Thanks Alfred.... Where there is a need I guess someone will fill it ! I 
will have to search these little wonders out. I wasn't having any 
success partitioning/formatting on a USB Port.

Bill


 Alfred wrote:
> 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. 
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> 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
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> Hi all:
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> 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 ?
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> Bill
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