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It sounds like the USB is fine. What mode is the drive controller in? It's probably IDE. I haven't fucked with this in SO long but I am guessing the south bridge controller isn't supported by the newer kernels. It looks like basic IDE is still supported. Have you tried other kernels? I'm wondering if something like Ubuntu LTS or Arch LTS would have more devices supported.
Do you know how to boot strait to the kernel and nothing else? Since this is probably IDE you can do it super easy. It sounds like you can load the kernel into memory alright so you should be able to probe the kernel once booted to see whats on
lsusbandlspcito see what's not coming up.You can probably use any recovery USB/kernel to get an idea of if you're supported or not.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/92556/how-do-i-boot-into-a-root-shell