I bought this cable yesterday from Lamington Road for 650/-. It is available from any of the dealers on the street who have a phone line - ask and they all phone the place who is the stockist and it is delivered in 15 minutes. 
.... any dealer ...except Computer Selection who were NOT interested in making the phone call. 
I find it very useful as I have 8 HDDs and about 8 Optical drives and at times I find the need to connect up different drives - dont ask why I have so many drives ... whenever I have a little spare cash I go and buy another drive 
This gizmo handles 3.5" PATA drives as well 2.5" Notebook drives along with Optical drives - CD and DVD.
I attached a CDROM and could boot with the XP install CD and the XP setup procedure started up !! NICE !!!
I transferred a 2.5GB file and the transfer rate was varying between 18 - 20 mb/s when the same drive was placed inside a USB case I get a transfer rate of 23mb/s. In one of the reviews it is mentioned that it was possible to burn CDs at 32x and DVDs at 4x witht he drive attached to this gizmo.
I read at DANDATA that both the 3.5" and 2.5" drives should be connected at the same time.
here are 2 reviews... and pictures...
http://www.dansdata.com/rdriver.htm
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?h...ev=/search?q=r-driver+11+usb+to+ide&hl=en&lr=
.... any dealer ...except Computer Selection who were NOT interested in making the phone call. I find it very useful as I have 8 HDDs and about 8 Optical drives and at times I find the need to connect up different drives - dont ask why I have so many drives
... whenever I have a little spare cash I go and buy another drive This gizmo handles 3.5" PATA drives as well 2.5" Notebook drives along with Optical drives - CD and DVD.
I attached a CDROM and could boot with the XP install CD and the XP setup procedure started up !! NICE !!!
I transferred a 2.5GB file and the transfer rate was varying between 18 - 20 mb/s when the same drive was placed inside a USB case I get a transfer rate of 23mb/s. In one of the reviews it is mentioned that it was possible to burn CDs at 32x and DVDs at 4x witht he drive attached to this gizmo.
I read at DANDATA that both the 3.5" and 2.5" drives should be connected at the same time.
here are 2 reviews... and pictures...
http://www.dansdata.com/rdriver.htm
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?h...ev=/search?q=r-driver+11+usb+to+ide&hl=en&lr=
