I have this 250GB IDE Harddrive from my old Pentium 4 Desktop. It’s still pretty much working and wanted to still make it useful. Store some not-so-important files like movies or what-have-you.
So I got an IDE Enclosure from the local electronics store (read: CD-R King) and set the old drive in. It works fine on a Windows 7 OS. But no luck getting it to work with Ubuntu.
This is also the case with the old SATA drives from my old notebook that I also set in an enclosure. Unable to work with Ubuntu.
So my research begins. So far these are a couple of potential leads that look promising:
http://www.codegravity.com/blog/usb-ide-enclosure-in-linux-problem-solved
and
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-910490-start-0.html (towards the last reply)
and
http://superuser.com/questions/408930/cant-mount-old-ide-hdd-using-an-usb-adapter
Let’s see.
