I have an old laptop hard drive (a 60GB WD 600 Scorpio) sitting around, and feel that I should be putting it to some use! I've been looking at hard drive enclosures, and frankly have no idea what this is.
It says on the top of it that it is an enhanced IDE (EIDE) drive. I've read conflicting reports online about whether EIDE is the same thing, or at least compatible with, PATA. Wikipedia, at least, implies this, and in my opinion Wikipedia might as well be law!!! I have also seen a lot of cheap, nice looking PATA enclosures around.
Can anyone tell me if my drive would fit in a PATA enclosure? Help would be really appreciated
It says on the top of it that it is an enhanced IDE (EIDE) drive. I've read conflicting reports online about whether EIDE is the same thing, or at least compatible with, PATA. Wikipedia, at least, implies this, and in my opinion Wikipedia might as well be law!!! I have also seen a lot of cheap, nice looking PATA enclosures around.
Can anyone tell me if my drive would fit in a PATA enclosure? Help would be really appreciated

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