[ale] 1.8" laptop hard drive adapter

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 13:33, David Tomaschik <david at tuxteam.com> wrote:
> At the Microcenter in Marietta, they occasionally do 30% off all clearance
> merchandise, and so I had the fortune of picking up
> http://kingwin.com/products/cate/accessories/adapters/usi_2535.asp for
> around $12.  Though one of the cheaper products, I've used it for a
> half-dozen or so tasks and had no problems with it.  The only caveat is you
> HAVE to connect power first, or it won't be able to read the drive partition
> table.

Thanks for the reply David.  I actually had something similar in the
past, and wound up re-purchasing a new one.  However, in addition to
that I also had to express purchase a LIF/ZIF converter as Fry's only
sold USB converters that supported IDE/SATA connectors.

-Jim P.