Does anyone know of an interface (shield) and control program (sketch) for either Arduino or Raspberry PI B+ that can transfer files from an old IDE hard drive to either SD card or USB flash drive?
very unlikely you’d find such.
age.
complexity.
can do it with a PC.
My RPi is on my LAN and uses a network share for mass storage. Share is on my small NAS but could be on a PC too.
Are you trying to save the data on the IDE disk to a SD card/USB stick? Or why does the Arduino or RPi need to access it, instead of a pc?
There are SATA or IDE to USB (2) interfaces on the market, which a RPi could probably access right away. Usually you do this with a PC, but anything acting as a USB host should be able to use it. It just would need to have the drivers or kernel support in it for this though. Not sure if Arduino’s with or without a USBHost shield are up to the task.
p.s. According to the last message in this thread it is possible with a Pi and such a SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 interface, provided you use external power supply for it:
My resources are a notebook PC, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi B+. Really need a desktop PC to access the old MP3 player drive which I’m not even sure is a standard ATA7 IDE drive.
Pictures, modelnumbers, part numbers and brandlogos can usually shed light on it. An Ide connector is most likely a dead giveaway already.
if it is IDE and if it is a FAT formatted file system (likley not)
use this with your laptop (there are dozens of vendors)