Does an external SATA drive work on my Pbook?

So I swizzed into buying a SATA drive from the store and now just just realised that the drive in my Powerbook is Ultra ATA.

How can I make it work?

Thanks all!

Do you want to use it externally?

If so, just put it in an external Firewire or USB 2.0 enclosure and you're set.

If you wanted to install it internally you'd have to have an IDE drive im afraid, the SATA drive won't work.

Sorry, yes, want to use it as an external drive.

Thanks for confirming that it will work with a USB2 enclosure. Phew! I thought it wouldn't read the hdd.

I just plugged the SATA drive with a USB2 enclosure and it won't mount the drive.

System profiler recognises the SATA drive in a USB2 port and I can hear the drive is powered but it won't read it.

The enclosure uses a JMicron JM20339 chipset. It claims to be Mac compatible so I'm not sure what else to do.

Help!

Try checking the disk utility to see if the disk shows up there as an unformatted volume.

Just tried and it's not on disk utility.

Got the drive to work! Apparently, the Pbooks usb ports are low powered so any device that requires more power won't work on them.

A known issue.

I guess I should have gone for the firewire enclosure....

Oh it's a 2,5" drive?

Yeah, firewire enclosures are the way to go, especially since you can also boot from firewire drives if you're using this as a backup/clone of of your internal harddrive.