Drive formatting

[Alfred]

Originally they were made for External Hard Drives, you could make an
IDE drive into a USB Drive, and then put it in such an "Aluminium Case".
Then that Tyred out a bit when External Cases came into being, but I've
seen them here and there. That is the IDE - to - SATA converters. If you
can't find one, I'll see how much they are here, and then you can order
one from me, or the local store here can send you one.

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: Re: Drive formatting
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:01:16 -0500

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. 
>
> 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 ?
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>
> Bill
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