external usb kit for sata and IDE devices ?

[mac_shinobi]

Hi All

 

I have a SATA / IDE to USB kit and have attached a hard drive to the kit and then the usb cable to my Mac Pro ( using boot camp and windows xp ) windows xp detects 2 devices in device manager

 

unknown device

usb device

 

but I can't seem to get it to detect that there is a hard drive or to get it to use it as a disk drive device and even going into device manager and disk management ( it does not show up in there )

 

Any advice on what to do to get it to show up and working ?

[pscott]

Try another hard drive, I get this with some hard drive that are dead, a working drive and it picks up straight away as disk drive

[mac_shinobi]

the hard drive I was using was a working one as I just attached it to one of my PC's IDE and it was detected fine.

[timbo343]

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[SYNACK]

How old was the drive, I have had issues with older drives not being detected proberly by USB interface devices. These work fine on standard IDE but have issues with the newer/less feature complete controllers included in the USB bridge devices.

[Michael]

The problem definitely looks driver related, hence the hard drive isn't displayed in Disk Management. If you try the external hard drive on another system, does it work ok?

[PeterW]

I have a SATA / IDE to USB kit

Does it have a power supply, if so is the drive spinning up? It sounds like the adaptor is being partially detected but is not getting enough power.

[mac_shinobi]

the ide / sata kit I have has a mains power cable that converts it to the correct voltage for hard drives etc and then the ide / sata converts or goes to a usb cable which I plugged into the front of my mac pro and also tried it on a normal PC at the back ie the usb ports at the back both of which gave me 2 unknown devices as per the question

 

unknown device

usb device

 

both of these had a yellow exclamation mark and did not locate the driver.

 

I tried my kit with another old hard drive that I have and OS X 10.5.5 detected it and mounted the drive fine - I have not tried this with the other drive though as the data I needed retrieving was from another machine and I needed to alter the permissions and was not sure what it would do to the data as from what I understand the permissions that windows applies is different to os x 10.5.5 ( could be wrong ) but did not want to take any chances.

 

yes the drive does spin up and then after a while it spins down or stops spinning or w/e as obviously ( both windows on bootcamp and windows on the PC does not have the relevant drivers to install for the hard drive ( lets call this hard drive one ) and my hard drive that mounted fine on os x hard drive two mounted.

[Michael]

So from what you're saying, it does definitely appear to be driver related as the kit works with other systems. As a workaround, you could install it as a slave drive and copy data that way.

[mac_shinobi]

I did that last night as gave up trying to get the kit to work and yes when attached as a slave drive to the PC ( not my mac pro ) the hard drive worked fine.

 

Which is why I asked the question as I wanted to see if anyone could help me with the driver side of it.