20 Mar
2000
20 Mar
'00
12:20 p.m.
Hello Richard
On 20-Mar-00, you wrote:
it
These drives are ideal for those of us who have Amiga
600/1200. Email me as
I am going to St Louis for an Amiga convention and can sell them PDQ.
Gary Hildebrand
I recently ran onto a few 2-1/2" drives of 250 MB
capacity and using only
5
volts. These are Quantum drives in case it makes a
difference, and claim
to
use a maximum of 0.5 Amps. Are these big enough to
interest you guys? I
haven't been following this particular thread, hence haven't a clue.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: iOpener
maybe
40-pin
>> IDE drives could be used too and not just laptop drives?
>
> AFAIK, there is no ready source of 12V. Also, consider the power draw.
A
--- John Wilson <wilson(a)dbit.dbit.com> wrote:
even
Mine just arrived this morning, I had ordered it
from Netpliance's own
800 # so evidently at least *they* still have stock even if CC doesn't
(suits me, the nearest CC is 1.5 hours away from me anyway).
Good for you. I didn't want to pay the shipping and I can afford to wait
a week or two.
> In keeping with nerd tradition I've got the thing all in pieces before powering
it on for the first time --
Way to go.
> But the 44-pin connector is right there as promised. I'm thinking of doing a
tiny PCB rather than soldering 44 individual wires on...
There's great hack running around where you take a regular 44-pin cable
that's long enough and attach a second connector immediately adjacent to
the connector on one end. You use the inner pins of the end connector
and the outer pins on the new connector to attach to the motherboard.
-------------------
|| ||||
^^ (use these "pins")
drive end motherboard end
Since one way to view the problem is that the motherboard connector is
on the "wrong side" of the PCB (causing pin 1 to map to pin 2, etc),
couldn't you do make a cable like this...
||
--------------------
||
Wouldn't that simulate having a connector on the wrong side and reverse
the effect of the motherboard wiring?
> I wonder if there's a +12V source in here anywhere so that standard > laptop drive pulls 500-700mA (2,5-3.5W), a desktop
drive draws closer to
> 9W-15W. It's even a consideration when choosing a different
> CPU (ISTR the WinChip180 is rated at ~9W, most Pentia suck around
13-17W).
-ethan
ObClassic: there's plenty of space on the flash disk to stick a small OS
and a variety of apps including Kermit. If you hacked the flash and
disabled
> the hard disk (or had a way to specify the boot order), you could bring > up by default into a terminal program and use it
as a console if it
weren't
> running some other app. Yes, a dumb terminal is
cheaper and probably
more
> VT100 compliant (double-high characters spring to
mind immediately), but
a
real DEC
terminal is not as portable.
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