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IDE cabling: Standard versus Enclosure - Greg the dogsitter - 10-08-2006
Should I be able to take the cabling from an internal hard drive kit and use it in a FW enclosure?
I'm referring to cables with the three connectors: blue (board?), and black and grey (master/slave?).
The cable in the enclosure just has two connectors.
Thanks from both of us!
Re: IDE cabling: Standard versus Enclosure - PeterW - 10-08-2006
Yes, but most enclosures will only "see" one drive on the cable - the one jumpered as Master - regardless of the number of connectors.
Re: IDE cabling: Standard versus Enclosure - mikebw - 10-09-2006
I haven't done it, but I thought that any Oxford bridge chipset would support master/slave drives (2 at the same time), given the appropriate cable and power supply.
Re: IDE cabling: Standard versus Enclosure - ka jowct - 10-09-2006
I thought that any Oxford bridge chipset would support master/slave drives (2 at the same time), given the appropriate cable and power supply.
I have an Oxford bridgeboard that will not. I bought it from FW Depot years back to convert a 2-bay SCSI case to FW. Not only did it fail to see more than one drive, it also failed to see any hard drive I tried to hook up. It did see CD burners, but that wasn't what I bought it for.
The people at FW Depot didn't know why it wasn't working with HDs. I should have insisted on returning it for a refund, but never got around to it.