Hello Steven,

   SMB> I had an interesting experience the other day with an
      > ATA drive in a USB enclosure.

As did I.  The thing seemed to work, but the drive would not
physically fit in the extruded aluminium enclosure!  Still,
I plugged the adaptor into the back of the drive, propped it
up on a notepad and salvaged all the data from my laptop's
home directory.  I think that in itself was worth the US$ 15
that I paid and I may re-case it for future use.

   SMB> Oddly enough, it worked with NetBSD but *not* with
      > Windows.  Quite the opposite of the usual situation!

Mine worked with NetBSD.  I have yet to try it on an MS
Windows machine.

   SMB> When I moved the jumper to "single drive", it worked
      > fine on Windows.

Mine was a 2.5" drive, so I'm not even sure that it had
single/master/slave jumpers.

- Andy Ball
        ...for my next trick, Savvio RAID in a biscuit tin...