[CentOS] [OT] How to recover data from an IDE drive

On 10/27/2016 11:20 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> I got one of those from, er, either amazon or newegg a few years ago,
> and while it works for a PATA drive, no matter what I did it wouldn't
> work with an optical drive. despite the customer support people insisting
> it does work. following their configuration settings didn't help.

likely because optical IDE drives use a completely different command set 
known as ATAPI, which is scsi based.   the adapter I linked is strictly 
for hard drives


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz