Been using hard drives ever since that first ST-225 (which I still have!) and have a couple of boxes of "ATA" drives, along with an external drive interface that will hook up to those, SATA, laptop drives, etc. What I'm seeing is that when I hook a drive up to this interface (which has its own power brick and power interfacing cables) I can hear/feel the drive spinning up, but that's about the extent of what I get. The computer just doesn't seem to "see" the drive at all.
I can't tell if the drive is initialiizing properly or not.
What I'm wondering is what goes wrong on the electronics of these? Before I go ahead and tear 'em apart for scrap. Any ideas as to how I can proceed further with testing these?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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