On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:46:47 -0700, isw wrote:
In article ,
AZ Nomad wrote:

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:13:09 -0700, isw wrote:
I have one that works fine with a 500 GB hard drive, but will not work
at all with a DVD burner I just got. Another SATA-USB adapter runs it
just fine.

So is the first one "for hard drives only", or is it defective?

Isaac

It's probably a device driver issue. If it has never worked for you than
it is a setup issue, not a repair issue.

As I already said:

The adapter works fine with a different drive (a standard hard drive,
not an optical one).

The new DVD burner works fine with a different SATA-USB adapter.
Both irrelevent.

Has the adapter in question *ever* worked with an optical drive?
I don't care if it works with hard drives.
I don't care if optical drives have worked with other adapters.

If not, it is most likely a setup issue or design issue. How the
the hell can you say it is in need of repair if you've never seen it
work?




Try posting to an approrpiate newsgroup. If there's software involved,
a good place to start would be with a newsgroup for the particular
operating system you use.

No software is involved.
Bull****. Do you even know what software is?
My god, how can anybody be this stupid.

Hint: driver advice for linux or mac won't help you if you run windows,
advice for windows version 7 won't help you if you run windows xp,
98, etc.

Well, that's sort of stating the obvious. Of course, often *nothing*
will help you if you run Windows.

Well, what the hell are you running? You've managed a mild whine about
windows. Are you using windows? What version? Linux? What distribution?
What version? Ditto for mac, bsd, solaris... what the **** are you running?!??


Also, in the history of computing, believe it or not, there's been
more than one SATA-USB adapter sold. Why do you think knowing
the maker and model wouldn't be useful information?

Well, it might. If the card had happened to have anything like that on
it, I would have mentioned it. Sadly, it did not.

What the hell are you babbling about? You're saying there's no chipset
on the card at all? That's amazing! No software. Now, it's doesn't have
hardware either. wow! NO maker. No model. Too bad you didn't mention what
operating system you run; you could have been told how to query the the USB
bus and find out via a simple software query. Oh, wait a minute. It one
of those magic devices that has no software, not even a single byte of firmware.


You continue the stunning behavior of not posting what make and model you're
talking about. You continue the stunning stupdity of believing that all
usb-sata adapters are identical. You can't be helped. You're simply
too stupid.

I'm through with you.
Go bank your head against a wall. It is all you are capable.