If you’ve got a plethora of older IDE (PATA) hard drives that you need to run data recovery, backup, or for the fun of running retro hardware, then your biggest issue is connecting to a more modern system. JJ Dasher, from JJ’s Messy Bench, has created ATAboy, an open source IDE to USB interface designed specifically for older hard disks.
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