JÃrÃme Poulin wrote: > Those I tried and confirmed not working are > CablesToGo:Âhttp://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=941&sku=30504 > StarTech:Âhttp://us.startech.com/product/USB2SATAIDE-USB-20-to-IDE-or-SATA-Adapter-Cable > > I don't have them handy but I can confirm you the chipset if you'd like. Please do! I'm very interested to know which ones to avoid. > As a sidenote USB converters don't have low level access to the disk Actually they do. The disk plugs in to the controller chip, and ATA commands are sent over USB. (See the Mass Storage USB Device Class Specification at usb.org.) > so it also makes smartctl and stuff not working at all. Maybe some ATA commands are eaten along the way, again possibly only with particular chipsets. It would be interesting to gather a bit of information on this as well. //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
