Problems, problems... so what to do?. Well, a quick web search using the power of
God ^R^R^R, I mean, Google, revealed something promising: there was only ONE web page listing drivers for a USB-to-IDE device using the now infamous ITE8903 chipset. As the pictures below show, it's the
CP-2508, an external USB 2.0 hard disk enclosure -sporting a 2.5-inch notebook hard disk- from
TSAIHONG, apparently a hardware manufacturer from
Guangdong, mainland China).
Notice the chipset listed: iTE8903. That's the one used in the Simpledrive Mini. Good vives...
Click on download and... there's a Win98 driver listed!. Time to test my theory...
Now, I don't know about you but I sadly don't read chinese. So what it was time for some sleuthing.... what I did was blindly following the links until I found what was evidently -judging by the URL- a
download page. And there it was, the Windows 98 driver for the USB 2.0 hard disk enclosure which uses an iTE8903 USB 2.0-to-IDE bridge chip. Time to test my theory!. For the impatient, I'll cut the babbling: the driver works with the Simpledrive Mini and can be found by clicking on this
download page. Choose the download icon next to "2508" -enclosure model#-. (Warning: likely a slow download).
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