Lightbulb police? (was RE: Anyone off to VCF-UK)

On 04/06/10 00:36, Fred Cisin wrote: No, but I've asked a Maplins employee for a Y-cable to split a 5.25" floppy drive power connector into a 5.25" and a 3.5" connector. "Durrrrh, I don't think they make those, it'd, like, overload your power supply." "They're a standard part, and you list them on your website." "That must be one of our competitors' websites, like, trying to pass themselves off as us and, like, confuse our customers..." I had a walk around and found a Y-cable, and the "Computer Department Sales Expert" was still wittering on about how my PSU was going to blow up... Idiot. I actually wanted to use it as an adapter -- I have a Sharkoon DriveLink, which is a neat little box that lets you hook an ATA (3.5" or 2.5") or SATA drive straight up to a USB port. It came with a nifty little power supply which supplies 5V and 12V.... on a 5.25"-floppy-style Molex connector. That power supply is very handy for powering disc drives for DiscFerret test runs :) -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/