Drive formatting

[William Frick]

Alfred:

If I don't find them this weekend in the big smoke, a little side trip 
to Bancroft would a nice diversion. I have a trip to Ottawa Xmas week 
and a return through your neighborhood would not be bad.


Bill

 Alfred wrote:
> Here is: Bancroft Ontario - The Store is Bancroft Computing, they have
> them in stock. The place is smaller than a Garage, but they have most
> things I'm looking for.
> 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:28:25 -0500
>
> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>  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 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
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