been so long since I was in the computer mfg'ing business I forget all the different incarnations of many of the pieces and parts. but then I remembered that buying drives off Ebay everyone was identifying them as IDE, and as you stated their are many incarnations of IDE. I did PM the seller(s) I was looking at on EBAY asking them to change the IDE to PATA.

I am sure that the maker of the dock was simply referring to PATA, as was I and i meant to clairify in my other post. Would make me wonder how they managed that. I have a stack of 20IDE's sitting here and there are at least 4 different port configs between those 20 drives. I'm quite surprised considering the placement of IDE is all over the place. Does it work OK reading memory cards or is that backwards as well? Try something like Driver Genius to see if it can find a new driver? Other than that, it's extremely odd. I would check to see if there are any updated drivers, but without a real mfg that might be a hard thing to do. Could be due to the fact my computer is OLD and doesn't recognize hot-swaps. I ask because if plug my dual doc (a sabrent like Ziggy's) into an eSata port, I have to reboot for the drive to be recognized. So the one thing this doesn't state is, is it USB only or USB and eSata? I can't tell because they only have one picture. Here is a link to the model i have bought. I am sure someone here came across someone online with this problem and they might be able to help me out please. Tried reboot with hdd inserted but no good either.

It seems that in both windows 7 64 bit and vista 32 bit an annoying fact that this unit disconnects from my laptop whe i insert a hardrive and reconnect if i remove the hdd.

I had a ext hdd go down on me and tried a docking station.

All in one hdd docking driver