IDE hard drive not recocgnized by system please help

Hello to all
I have an IDE to USB adapter and a couple of weeks maybe a months ago i had connected it to my imac and used three ide drives to take data to my imac.
Yesterday i tried to coinnect the same drive and adapter and teh drive wasnt recognized not even i teh disk utility. The only pace that i can see something is on system profiler where it states the brand and the speed of the data transfer .
Why it isnt detected?i mean i havent changed any jumperso the hard disks,they are exactly the same as before when they were nicely detected by teh system....
can anyone help?

What version of OS are you - the latest 10.5.6 update has a few bugs it sounds like. This update was a few weeks ago I believe.

If you want to back up you need to Archive and Install and get the combo updater before 10.5.6 and do not let it update to 10.5.6.

Chilbear said:

What version of OS are you - the latest 10.5.6 update has a few bugs it sounds like. This update was a few weeks ago I believe.

If you want to back up you need to Archive and Install and get the combo updater before 10.5.6 and do not let it update to 10.5.6.

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Hello and thak you for teh repply !
yeah i have the latest version of OS X 10.5.6 and maybe that is teh reason that is causing that i cnat recognize any ide to usb drives so what are my option??i cnt go back to a previous version can i?