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Maplin Electronics Store : Shop At Maplin Online UK Electrical Shop For UK Electronics Discounts - Is there any extra information you would like to know that we haven't provided? Help us improve our product information by telling us what you really need to know. Please note, we can only answer questions relevant to this product and that it may take a few days for a reply to be submitted. Click here to submit a question about USB 2.0 to IDE Adaptor FAQs about USB 2.0 to IDE Adaptor How is the drive powered?? - John The Drive is powered by the supplied power supply unit. will this product work with an internal DVD-RW? - Laurent Peters Yes,it will work with any IDE device. Can i still plug it into a laptop with usb 1.1 - Pete Yes it is backwards compatible. Is the drive hot-plug and play compatable? - Richard No, you need to restart as it has an IDE Device connected. If I plug a new (unformatted) drive into my Pc with this cable, can I format the drive or do I need to pre format via an existing IDE cable? - Glen It needs to be partitioned and formatted before it will be recognised. What is the length of the cable ? - Keith The cable is aprox 22cm long not including the usb plug Does the software have A Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher For Windows XP - Cameron No But windows Xp drivers are included. is there drivers to access this adaptor through DOS?? - Phil Jelley No. Can it connect to a 2.5 inch (laptop type) hard drive? - Alan No. It is for normal IDE devices. Will i be able to write CD's at high speeds as i only have USB 1.1? - Alan you will be able to write the cd's at the writers own speeds Any idea if its supported under Linux? Driver included? - Simon Linux is not supported. Does the USB2 to IDE Adaptor work on Mac OS X? - Chris Yes. Will it work with Linux ? - Andy M Linux is not supported. Is this Mac Compatible either OS9 oe OSX ? - Peter It has drivers for OS 8.6 and higher. This cable plugs directly into the external device. If I used a ribbon cable instead, would this allow more than one IDE device on the ribbon/IDE side to be accessed. i.e a hard drive AND a cdrw? - Steve No you can only use the one device where can i get the drivers for this - Steve No other drivers are available other than the supplied ones After purchasing this item and following the instructions I found that it would not give me access to the attached hard drive. Does the drive attached require special formatting? Is there a web site I can go to for the manufacturer of this device? - lynn The drive must be partioned/formatted and set to master before it will work Wots the max size of the hard drive and wot power supply is supplied with it? - JASON It will take any size of hard drive (this must be partioned with data or formated.A switchmode laptop style psu is included Does this present the drive to the OS as a standard usb mass storage device? - Martin yes It will appear under "My Computer" as a removable drive How does it provide power to the ide device when there seems to be no power cable? - leftZed A power cable is supplied. If i am using a laptop does this work? - leftZed As long as the Laptop has a USB Port, yes. Does this use custom drivers, or is it a standard "usb mass storage" device? - Martin It does use custome drivers, These are included Does it work on an apple mac? - Martin With OS 8.6 and higher. will your usb2 to ide adaptor work on a usb to dvd rewriter (atapi connection)?? - toony patterson Adapter will work on all IDE devices (writng software must support usb connection) Does it need a mains power source, or can I use it "on the move" with a battery-powered laptop? - MSS It needs a mains power source. Can my pc boot from a drive connected to this device? - Alan No. So if I take ANY hard drive from a PC, and connect it to this adapter, and the supplied power suppy, to my laptop. Will my laptop see it, and access the drive? - Chris from Lpool So long as the drive is partitioned and formatted and is set to master on the jumpers. Can this product be used with a PC equiped with USB 1? - Al Yes. you say any HD has to be partitioned before it is recognised,can a new HD be formatted with windows xp? my current HD is running 98, or is it just a mass storage solution? - mr_boozy This is just a mass storage solution. It doesn't matter what the format of the HDD is so long as it is formatted for the correct system (ie. If it is formatted in NTFS, Windows 98 won't be able to read it). Will this product work with products such as Norton Ghost for backups and restoring operating systems in the event of main hard drive fail. - Philip Nicholson No, as you cannot boot from this. I want to run the lead on a Win 98 laptop. My original driver CD is lost, can I download/get a copy of the drivers please - Jerry T email technical@maplin.co.uk and we will forward the drivers, they are not available on line as far as we are aware. Once you connect a formatted drive, can you then go and reformat this attached drive? - Jerry T Yes Will you be able to watch dvd movies over usb1? (ie is usb1 enough bandwith to cope with the higher data transfer of dvd?) - Dan It is unlikely the transfer rate on USB 1/1.1 would be high enough Which is the input voltage of the power supply - 220 v or 120 v? - Peter This is for UK mains. Which versions of Windows are supported? - Richard Boyce Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP In Answer to other peoples Q's, this device does work under Linux. my setup is Linux kernel 2.4.19 (suse 8.1), USB2 compliant port, Ricoh mp7200A CDRW drive. i am able to browse the cd fine, play audio CD's, and write to CDR / RW's - Richard Boyce re linux I use windows 98 at home and xp at work. Would I still be able to use the drive on both systems? - slick Yes. Can you extend the length of cable to say 1m - Chris goodwin Yes Do I need to supply external power to the harddisk or harddisk will take power through the usb cable? - Chris goodwin The hard drive takes power from the included power supply unit you say it works on 98SE/Me/2000/xp. so does it work on the first version of win 98. - john Win98 first edition does not have USB support so therefore will not support this product. Can I connect 2 external hard drives to the same PC? - dave toot No I have an old harddrive with work on it. The harddrive has windows xp pro os on it as it used to be my master drive.Will it still be accessible with this product or will it need formatting first? - Grai It will work providing the drive is not too old/small Does the adaptor work with Windows NT 4? - Grai No.