2.5 inch PATA Drives?

[Stuart Read]

Hi Alfred,
You can definitely format a USB harddrive on Ubuntu.
Try System->Administration->Disk Utility if you are on Karmic. On
previous versions I always had good luck with gparted as well.
-Stuart

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I have a few PATA 2.5 inch Drives, and no hardware to connect to PATA. I
> have some USB 2.0 Cases for them, but I'm having troubles Formatting
> them with EXT3. Windows has a Utility to do this with USB Drives, but
> Ubuntu does not seem to have this ability. Are there Hardware Cards that
> can provide PATA connections like a PCI to PATA Card, to be able to do
> this?
>
> Alfred!
>
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