Hacker said:Is it necessary that the disk needs to be formatted b4 using it thru USB.
No, i am afraid you have erred in ur judgement here. the controller is not in the usb case. The ide drive is working in IDE / ATA mode , just like as if it was attached to ur ide ports on the pc. what happens is this.Eazy said:I always format my drives on the controller they will be connected to - dont know why but I just do it this way - in this case the controller is the USB case so my drives are formatted whilst they are in the case either by a WinME Boot floppy for FAT32 or from XP's Disk Management for NTFS.
deejay said:Eazy, when i had bought my usb box a few months ago, i attached my old ide drive in it and it worked straight away.
Not only that when i connected my cdrom to it there was no problem reading the CD disc contents. but changing of cd disc without power recycling does not work.
deejay said:No, i am afraid you have erred in ur judgement here. the controller is not in the usb case. The ide drive is working in IDE / ATA mode , just like as if it was attached to ur ide ports on the pc. what happens is this.
the IC on that small board inside the box converts these ide bus data to usb format. i.e. from parallel to serial. Thats all.