Why is the Universal Drive Adapter not reading IDE drives properly?

I bought the Universal Drive Adapter and it worked well. I had to replace the power connector as the original developed a crack, but it worked fairly well with my SATA drives (still does) and my IDE drives (not anymore).

I cannot get the IDE disks to mount on my PC running Windows 7 64 bit. The same OS I had when the drive adapter worked with everything.

I am pretty sure it is a software configuration issue as I can see the drive using the disk management utility of Windows. The disk just will not Initialize due to an I/O Error.

IF107-108-1 Universal Drive Adapter