Hi..
I am struggling to understand why I am not able to find hardware that will allow me to insert a thumb drive into a usb port that will interface to an IDE interface. There are plenty of SD/CF to IDE interfaces but none for USB.
I own a piece of 1999/2000 vintage test equipment that has a Windows 2000 OS controller. The CD rom drive has died (configured as an ide 'slave') and instead of replacing the drive, I want to use a thumb drive. This would then double as a convenient way of getting my files to/from the internal 2.5" IDE HDD.
It 'seems' that there would have been for a device like this on the market, but I certainly cannot find one. Would anyone please shed some light on this? I appreciate your comments.
thanks
-Jim
I am struggling to understand why I am not able to find hardware that will allow me to insert a thumb drive into a usb port that will interface to an IDE interface. There are plenty of SD/CF to IDE interfaces but none for USB.
I own a piece of 1999/2000 vintage test equipment that has a Windows 2000 OS controller. The CD rom drive has died (configured as an ide 'slave') and instead of replacing the drive, I want to use a thumb drive. This would then double as a convenient way of getting my files to/from the internal 2.5" IDE HDD.
It 'seems' that there would have been for a device like this on the market, but I certainly cannot find one. Would anyone please shed some light on this? I appreciate your comments.
thanks
-Jim