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Name: deepkent
Date: September 1, 2005 at 02:27:21 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: 1GB
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Can I use a UATA drive in an external USB2/firewire caddy? The caddy makers say it will only take SATA drives, but they also say that their caddies make ALL IDE drives portable. Would my system recognise it at its full capacity of 400GB? My mobo is an ASUSTeK A7N8X2.0. Many thanks.



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Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
Date: September 1, 2005 at 06:05:34 Pacific
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James,

The caddies are made specific to the type of drive (ATA or SATA). Check out some samples

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1204

I bought the Sabrent one for $20. I inserted a standard 80 GB Western Digital internal IDE drive, and it works great.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1281816&CatId=0

Good luck.

I - Sandor J

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