For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last ...

So I screwed up and ordered the wrong external drive enclosure from OWC. I wanted the enclosure that accepts SATA drives, but instead I ordered the one that takes IDE/ATA drives.

Our Power Mac G4 is back from the repair shop and all seems well (see previous item). While the Mac was being fixed, we set up the G4's drive as an external 3.5" FireWire hard drive. Here are some ...

i think its gotta do with the nforce2 2.0 (a7n8x) drivers as it replaced the windows ide drivers, but my hard drives and cdrom are shown as scsi drives in device manager (showing as using windows ...

Granite Digital on Thursday introduced its $39.95 USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Bridge Adapter Kit. The device enables you to attach a raw Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE hard disk drive mechanism to a Mac or PC using ...