[Ham-Computers] External IDE Drive "holder"?

[AD5PE]

Don't know the name, but I had a friend that had one.  Inside was apparently
a mini-computer - cpu, IDE controller, at least some buffer memory and its
own hard drive.  It had two buttons - "read" and "write".  It would copy a
hard disk sector by sector to its internal when the "read" button was
pressed.  Red LED turns green, you pop that drive out and insert a "blank"
disk of equal or larger size and hit "write".  When the red LED goes green
again, you have a hard disk "clone".

 

It's used (usually with a single tested "master" and a whole box of matching
"new" disks to make multiple identical copies.  Used at smaller "white box"
shops to make pre-loaded disks for their pre-built machines for sale, etc.
The one I saw the friend that had it worked for a supplier for Indian
casinos.  They used it to clone the disks to make multiple electronic slots
or video poker machines.

 

He used it for me to "save" a disk that was going bad.  I just took him the
bad disk and a slightly larger new one, and popped the new disk in the old
machine when I got home.  Worked like a charm.

 

Jay

 

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Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] External IDE Drive "holder"?

 

What did it read?

Did this box have a display?

> On an investigations show last night, I caught glipses of an external
> IDE hard drive reader.  It was an external box about the size of
> theee beta cassettes in size, an IDE hard drive was plugged into the
> TOP of the unit to be read.  This was NOT so much an external hard
> drive holder as a reader for quick swapouts, the drive was junk
> chunked into the top of it, then pulled and another unit plopped in.
>
> Any ideas what this type of IDE hard drive reader is called?
>
> I'd like to find one.
>
> Kurt

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