My Macbook Pro (retina) doesn't want to read an IDE with adapter?

I purchase a Sabrent USB 2.0 to Sata/IDE hard drive Adapter, as I would like to look at all the data on three old hard drives I've extracted from old PC's (which had Windows 95 - 98 I believe) as it's mainly just photo's and perhaps a few documents needed.   May be some .mp3 music files as well.
Now, I sit here with my Macbook Pro on my lap, the old Hard drive is humming nicely, the red LED showing on my adapter showing the USB is hooked up nicely to the Macbook....but if I open either Finder or Disk Utility nothing is showing up?
By what I can tell, the IDE HD is set as 'master' if that helps? 
I'm not quite sure why there is an issue, but I thought some of you folks would be much more an expert on this than I, as I it just took me most of a day to figure out how to correctly put a new Samsung EVO SSD in my wife's 2012 Macbook Pro, where I then took out the optical drive and put a caddy with her old HD in it.  I ran 'Carbon Copy' cloner, and all is good....albeit, I haven't yet eliminated the data on the Sata drive, as it asks me for a password to be able to do this, and I'm not sure if that is the correct way to delete all files and repartition?   So in reality, I guess I have TWO questions! 
All three drives I have are from PC's, and are IDE drives from a Window based PC, so should my Macbook Pro be able to read these drives, and be able to copy the files I'd like to save/copy from it?   I'd then like to transfer them to my external hard drive (4 TB) which are mainly photo's of my kids when they where little.   Not sure if having the IDE set as 'master' is the issue, or if the data being Windows based might be it?   I'm new to doing this sort of thing, so I appreciate any advice you might have.
Thanks in advance!

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