Drive formatting

[William Frick]

That would be great Alfred... where is 'here' ?  I am planning a trip to 
Toronto soon anyway so I can scout out on College street.


Bill


Alfred wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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>  Alfred wrote:
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>> 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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