If the IDE to USB board gone bad, one solution may be to bypass it to see if it's a problem with the drive. The USB to IDE board is actually housed in the cable you connect to the back of the unit.
File:SuperDisk_Mac_-_USB_to_IDE_adapter
Not sure about the newer models, but the original was just a ide drive in an enclosure with a power adapter board that converts the IDE port on the internal drive to a proprietary jack that the "cable" plugs into. The cable you plug into the back houses the IDE to USB conversion logic.
You can take the entire drive out and plug it into the IDE port on your motherboard and use a standard floppy power connector from your PSU. if the drive works, it's either you're usb adapter cord or your power adapter.
I had the crazy idea of getting a cheap unit off ebay that doesn't include the power adapter and cable and sorta hacking it into a internal drive. It would be nice to have the novelty of internal floppy on my PC that has that fancy self eject mechanism that vintage macs had.
I'm sure there's proper internal drives with a faceplate designed for it on eBay, but they are probably more expensive to get a hold of.
If the drive has gone bad don't toss it. You can see if the internals can be useful for converting other IDE drives to USB. That depends on how the USB to IDE adapter is programmed though. It may only work with that specific drive.
File:SuperDisk_Mac_-_USB_to_IDE_adapter
Not sure about the newer models, but the original was just a ide drive in an enclosure with a power adapter board that converts the IDE port on the internal drive to a proprietary jack that the "cable" plugs into. The cable you plug into the back houses the IDE to USB conversion logic.
You can take the entire drive out and plug it into the IDE port on your motherboard and use a standard floppy power connector from your PSU. if the drive works, it's either you're usb adapter cord or your power adapter.
I had the crazy idea of getting a cheap unit off ebay that doesn't include the power adapter and cable and sorta hacking it into a internal drive. It would be nice to have the novelty of internal floppy on my PC that has that fancy self eject mechanism that vintage macs had.
I'm sure there's proper internal drives with a faceplate designed for it on eBay, but they are probably more expensive to get a hold of.
If the drive has gone bad don't toss it. You can see if the internals can be useful for converting other IDE drives to USB. That depends on how the USB to IDE adapter is programmed though. It may only work with that specific drive.