Good post, Murph--but I have a couple of corrections.

If the drive is PATA (big wide cable), it's more likely to be set to Cable Select or Master, since on the little teeny internal bus of hte USB converter board, it's a Master, not a slave. The drive should have a little diagram telling you what jumper need to go where for which operation.

4th paragraph, you mean SATA.

6th paragraph, they hook up to SATA ports, not USB. Different protocol.

Sorry for the nitpicking, but hey, I'm a pedant.

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