Getting mah datas via my new enclosure

I thought you had written "Getting mah dates via my new enclosure". Now that is a thread I'd like to read!

Anyway - your best bet is to find someone who will loan you a computer. Most USB hard drive enclosures are notoriously picky about what kind of HDD setup they will work with.

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Original post by Andrew Russell I thought you had written "Getting mah dates via my new enclosure". Now that is a thread I'd like to read!

Haha me too. You know what they say, perverted minds think alike!

Haha! I thought he was going around saying "hey, ladies, check out my computer chassis"... but, uh, yeah - your interpretation is pretty perverted [grin]

My dating thread days are over; I'm engaged now.

Any help with the problem?

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Original post by Andrew Russell Haha! I thought he was going around saying "hey, ladies, check out my computer chassis"... but, uh, yeah - your interpretation is pretty perverted [grin]

Actually, I thought that by "enclosure" he meant some sort of fenced area or cage, and he was trapping girls in there and asking them to date him. Yeah, very strange...

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The old Pentium 2 I have running Linux doesn't seem to support ATA-100 drives (which the 120GB is), and so this enclosure has been the first real chance to make use of the contents of the drive in a long time.

ATA-100 drives will throttle down to 33 if that's all you've got. If neither it nor your shiny new enclosure will read it, I'd say it's possible the drive itself is buggered.

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Original post by Zipster Quote: Original post by Andrew Russell Haha! I thought he was going around saying "hey, ladies, check out my computer chassis"... but, uh, yeah - your interpretation is pretty perverted [grin] Actually, I thought that by "enclosure" he meant some sort of fenced area or cage, and he was trapping girls in there and asking them to date him. Yeah, very strange...

Yep - that's what I thought you meant.

I think your method may be more effective. Creepy.

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Original post by coldacid My dating thread days are over; I'm engaged now.

You can still date when engaged. Trust me, I know quite a lot of guys who.. Oh wait, never mind.

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Original post by Sneftel Quote: The old Pentium 2 I have running Linux doesn't seem to support ATA-100 drives (which the 120GB is), and so this enclosure has been the first real chance to make use of the contents of the drive in a long time. ATA-100 drives will throttle down to 33 if that's all you've got. If neither it nor your shiny new enclosure will read it, I'd say it's possible the drive itself is buggered.

Thing is, the P2 has a history of not liking various hard drives and other devices that go on the IDE bus. And the hard drive (WD1200JB) has worked in at least one other computer since the P4 died (although I wasn't able to make much use of that fact due to attitude problems of the owner of the computer - he didn't like me going in and mucking with his system's insides).

Is it possible that because of how cheap the enclosure was ($20+tax) that the controller/adapter is only smart enough to handle the hard drive as a singly partitioned drive as opposed to multiply partitioned?

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Original post by coldacid Is it possible that because of how cheap the enclosure was ($20+tax) that the controller/adapter is only smart enough to handle the hard drive as a singly partitioned drive as opposed to multiply partitioned?

Seems unlikely. The drive controller simply presents the disk as a block device; it doesn't even know partition tables exist. I suppose there might be some controller out there that tries to do more than that, and that therefore might have such limitations, but that seems a bit far-fetched. Less far-fetched is just a random bad interaction between the two products; such things happen on a disturbingly regular basis. Or maybe the controller just doesn't work... have you tried it with other drives?

Not yet, but probably will tomorrow. Won't be home for the rest of the day. With any luck, on Sunday I'll have access to yet another computer that might work with the drive, as well.