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CHAPTER 2: Introduction
2. Introduction
The USB to IDE Adapter is simple to use and light enough to take
anywhere. If all of the internal IDE connections in your USB-
equipped desktop or portable IBM compatible PC are occupied,
you can use the Adapter to connect an external IDE storage
device to the PC. Note that any device you attach needs to be
ATA/ATAPI compatible, so that it can be driven natively by
Windows. Devices that require extra drivers are not supported.
Some features of the Adapter itself and its hardware:
• Connects a portable storage device to any PC USB port.
• Transfers data at USB’s relatively high serial data rate.
• Supports ATA/ATAPI CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM,
DVD-RW, and other types of optical storage.
• Supports IDE/EIDE hard drives with Gigabyte capacities.
(Drives with capacities less than 1 GB are
not
supported.)
• Supports IDE ATAPI models of CompactFlash, Zip
®
, Jaz
®
,
LS-120, and other types of removable-storage drives.
• Comes with a universal power supply for the device.
• Can be autodetected by various versions of Microsoft
®
Windows
®
(but see the next page and
Chapters 3
and
4
).
