[SGVLUG] Caseless Usb-to-ide adaptors.

[Thomas Moore]

Hi all,

I bought a IDE to USB adaptor from Fry's last
year and put it and two Seagate 160GB drives
in a box I had left over from my Amiga 1000
days. SCSI had to be emulated through USB
but it turns out that the SCSI emulator in the
stock kernel (Slackware V9.1, kernel 2.4.29)
only looked at one LUN so only one drive was
seen. When I recompiled the kernel to 2.4.31
and added, look at all LUNs, it worked just
fine giving me /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

Don't know if this is relevent to your problem.

Tom

Claude Felizardo wrote:

>On 4/7/06, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Claude at a general meeting you talked about having problems getting a
>>caseless usb to ide adaptor to work with linux. I have a couple of
>>those, and ran into some problems, as well weird part is that they
>>seem to work with cd/dvd drives, laptop(2.5") drives, and smaller
>>capacity[4.3GB] 3.5" drives, but nothing with a couple of 120gb maxtor
>>drives I tried. I tried plugging it into my mac laptop and had the
>>same results as with linux.
>>
>>Anyone else have similar problems? Did you solve them?
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>Nope.  I looked it up at the web site and saw lots of people posting
>mixed results.  Some got it to work, others couldn't.   Another factor
>was the firmware version.    Don't have access to my laptop right now
>but I found a note with some info about it:
>
>     eagleTec
>     vendor 05e3
>     product id 0702
>     revision number 0.33
>
>I tried it with I think 3 different hard drives of various brands and
>had pretty much the same results.  The system would initially
>recognize the device but eventually something would die.  Don't recall
>if it was ever mounted.  It's like a module would abort and while the
>system continued to run, it wouldn't see the device anymore until I
>rebooted.  Forgot to try plugging in a different device.
>
>Places I looked:
>
>http://linuxfocus.org/~guido/usb/
>http://www.linux-usb.org/
>
>One place suggested doing a 'rmmod ehci-hcd' before plugging the
>device in but then it wouldn't see the device at all.
>
>It worked fine with winxp but then that required FAT and I was looking
>for a quick way to backup some TiVo files before rebuilding my server.
>
>Again, this was with a caseless USB to IDE adapter, not an enclosure. 
>It has it's own power supply that plugs directly into the IDE power
>socket.   I'm able to use other products that are actual enclosures.  
>Don't recall the details but one is a 2.5" that is USB powered, a 3.5"
>enclosure and a 5.25" box each with external power supplies.  All work
>fine.
>
>Now a couple of people at the meeting had suggested changing some kind
>of configuration file but I never got around to investigating further.
>
>claude
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