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_at_yahoo.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: iOpener
>
>
>--- John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com> wrote:
>> 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
even
>> powering it on for the first time --
>
>Way to go.
>
>> But the 44-pin connector is right there as promised. I'm thinking of
maybe
>> 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
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
>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 it
>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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Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 11:37:33 GMT