alt Hacker News>It's an adapter for connecting (very) old hard drives which only support CHS to a modern computer via USB, so that you can copy the data off them.
Exactly what the adapter shown on Amazon is for.
As gattilorenz confirms above.
>It's an adapter for connecting (very) old hard drives which only support CHS to a modern computer via USB, so that you can copy the data off them.
Exactly what the adapter shown on Amazon is for.
As gattilorenz confirms above.
Supposedly the problem is that these adapters only work with LBA, which wasn't supported by every drive in the very early days of IDE.
But maybe some of these cheap adapters do in fact work with CHS, or that specific 40 MB drive with LBA?