[Coco] Cloud-9 CompactFlash to IDE question.

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 24 October 2003 15:50, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 19:33, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>
>> The ones I've dealt with have a 2 pole switch that kills the 5 and
>> 12 volt power to the drive, and unlocks the holdin latches at the
>> same time.  I'd be a bit spooky about pulling the drawer with
>> power applied, particularly for a hard drive since what you
>> describe would have the disk still spinning down while its being
>> jostled and removed unless you paused for about 10  seconds for it
>> to stop before finishing the pullout operation.
>
>Yes, I wait before fully removing the drive.
>
>With the newer drives, that is not usally much of a problem because
> the heads retract away from the media as soon as power is cut off.
>
>Have you ever tried carrying a hard drive that was still spinning
> down? You can really feel the gyroscopic action if you try certain
> moves.

Yup, have noted, usually when bumpstarting an older drive suffering 
from stiction.

>> Obviously the drive should be unmounted before so there is no
>> chance of a last minute access/write while its in the process of
>> being powered down.
>
>No problem there.
>
>I just ordered one of the units from Cloud-9, along with a 6309,
>protector and HGB DOS.
>
>I probably will only use the CF to IDE unit in the COCO, as it is
> likely I will be getting a pre-release USB driver for OpenVMS for
> testing.
>
>I will be using the CompUSA carrier with the IDE drive, because it
> has built in fans.
>
>This allows me to put a removable hard drive and a CD-ROM in one of
> my old full size floppy cases.
>
>With out the fans, there is a possibilty that the hard drive would
>overheat.  And this allows everything to look good.
>
>-John
>wb8tyw at qsl.net
>Personal Opinion Only
>
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