I think the geeky thing to do there would be to bust apart an enclosure
to get to the connector parts directly :)

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:18, John Hebert wrote:
> Time involved messing around with the external
> enclosure screws, for one thing. And what about
> wanting to  copy data off of drives that are still
> mounted in a PC case to another computer?
> 
> I see this gadget as a boon to corporate espionage. ;)
> 
> That's a joke, BTW.
> 
> Besides, I assume the price will come down when China
> starts producing cheap knockoffs. The device is really
> just a powered 40 pin IDE to USB/FireWire adapter;
> nothing magical. The external enclosures are nice, but
> they are not ideal for dealing quickly with a pile of
> hard drives.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> --- Brad Bendily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > ~$150 for just the ComboDock
> > > ~$170 for the ComboDock, AC adapter, and USB and
> > > FireWire cables
> > 
> > $150 ducks for a combo thing to connect to your hard
> > drive?
> > 
> > Why not just get an external enclosure and put the
> > drive in that?
> > They don't do Firewire, but sheesh they're a lot
> > cheaper!
> > 
> > 
> > They start around $5 on ebay!
> >
> http://search.ebay.com/external-usb-drive-case_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfromZR10QQsotrZ2QQcoactionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch
> > 
> > 
> > BB
> > 
> > 
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