17 Jun
2004
17 Jun
'04
7:29 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Joe R. wrote:
I barely remember the Passport but I've seen
lots of other brands of
removeable drive sleds in the scrap places. All of the ones that I've seen
have a standard connection on the back (ST-506, IDE, SCSI or what-ever).
None of the ones that I've used needed any drivers and I can't see why one
would. The system just sees a regular IDE or SCSI port. It doens't know of
care if the drive is removable. The only thing that you >might< have to do
is to change the BIOS setting for the hard drive.
This one has an odd connector. It's a got one 34-pin ribbon coming off
the back. Even if it was MFM, didn't those have a secondary 16(ish)-pin
connector? This has a 1988 date on the mainboard.
The actual connector on the inside where the drive plugs in is only
26-pin. Very odd.
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