On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> One 'nasty' relates to the Archive Sidewinder, a QIC tape cartridge
> drive. This thing has a 4 pin power connector identical to the ones on
> 5.25" floppy drives, etc). Ground on the middle 2 pins, +5V where you'd
> expect it, too. But the other outside pin is +24V, not +12V. I am told
> that some Suns used this drive and had a special power cable for it
> carrying the right voltages. Get then mixed up when assembling the
> machine, and you might plug +24V into a hard disk expecting +12V. The
> results, apparently, are not pleasant.
Another similar nasty:
I have a 3.25" drive that uses the same connector as a 3.5" drive, except
that the +5 and +12 pins are reversed!
Fortunately, the 3" drives that I have use the same connector and pinout
as 5.25". (which seems to be standardized)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Jun 29 2001 - 18:53:30 BST