Reverse IDE to USB adaptor?

Not for USB - a microprocessor would in practical terms be needed.

However, you can buy an adapter to use a Compact Flash card in place of an IDE drive.

Due to the CF card being able to talk this interface already, the adapter ss little more than physical format change, and some means of getting power in if you're starting from full size 40 pin IDE rather than the 44 pin version used for 2.5" drives.

You could probably make an SD/MMC card work somehow very slowly if you figured out how to use the IDE as general purpose I/O and bitbang spi mode to the card.

CF is really your best bet.

Let me modify that: you could probably hack up some kind of IDE to ISA bridge and use an old ISA bus USB card, but you'd have to add drivers to the TIVO, modify it's IDE drivers to fake the ISA bus, etc...

IDE to CF card should be pretty much plug and play in comparison.

32gb USB is way cheaper than 32gb CF (or even SD). Oh well...

The task you wish to perform is obviously far beyond your capacity to do so.

I say this because someone that would have the skills, would also know the answer to your query.

NO, there is no such device or interface.

2.5" hard drives do not use that much power, and also do not generate very much heat.

It is also way less reliable, and way slower.

Both the G and the B are capitalized. If you wish to appear as anything else other than a non-skilled dweeb wanna be, you should at least get the lingo right.

I capitalize acronym elements that derive from proper names - e.g. Hz, Ah, etcetera.

Who are Giga and Byte?

Absent the capacity to learn, your comment might be true. I didn't know how a digital computer worked before I bought my first one in the late 60's - but I've learned a little about them since; some of that by asking questions.

Only if learning is not something that people can do. Is it?

Others have positied that it could be made - are you absolutely sure it has not been?

But for my purposes, I have decided that "that much" and "very much" are too much.

Assuming that you meant well, I thank you for your efforts.

I don't know. Where can I buy a 32 gram-bit flash drive?

Don't know.

32gb cards are readily available.

It would help to be contextually aware...

Giga is a Latin prefix, dipshit.

Byte is the computer term for a binary word, whereas the lower case refers to the term "bit".

You are ALMOST as bad as the OP.

It would help for YOU to be contextually aware.

G means Giga... all over the world.

g means gram... all over the world.

There are no "contextual exceptions".

Letter based term indicators are used worldwide, and "context" is not supposed to be a factor. If it were, no one would know what was being related in written communications without first asking for clarification, and that defeats the entire purpose of using single letter (or more) as an abbreviation to describe a unit of measure of type class designation.

The current consensus leans toward making SI the worldwide standard, IIRC.

You don't know where to buy readily available 32 gram-bit flash drives? They'd be very heavy, I wager.

It would help to be socially aware; *NOBODY* else use your made-up "conventions". Are you autistic? Find me ONE example of a commercial flash card or SD card that has the units in lower case. Hint, Cluestein: there aren't any.

Actually not. A 32 Giga-bit 32gram-bit drive would only be 1E-9g;=20 not heavy at all.

Units, perhaps ('b' is often used for 'bits'). The multiplier 'G',=20 never.

--=20 Keith

Yup, just make sure that the CF supports fixed-disk mode. Many do not.

Aha.

Thankyou. Is there an acronym that indicates this? Mfr's specifications are often somewhat terse.

Yeah... sure, bub.

Remember to post the link to the site that makes it when you find it.

Bwuahahahaha!

I'm not aware of any acronym, but I'd start here:

Where is the link for the IDE to USB adaptor?

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