Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 05/02/2017 06:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? I actually have been using an IDE-SATA converter on these systems

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > Your SATA disks lasted 7-8 years? That's a reasonable lifetime > for spinning disks. Replace them with more SATA disks, either > spinning or SSD. Thanks for responding. I failed to mention that those SATA disks were SSD disks so it probably makes more sense to just buy some r

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? > > I actually have been using an IDE-SATA conve

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Martin McCormick
writes: > Does such an animal exist? I mean in the direction you are thinking > of (I know the "other" direction exists). That's what bothers me, too. I know that the picture I have in my head is a board with an IDE connector on one side and a usb port on the other where one installs the thumb dr

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? Does su