[Coco] Re: Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[David Hazelton]

Mark Marlette wrote:

> I would have to verify this but I **thought** the small IDE drives had a
> different cable, ie: 44 pins instead of 40??? Per the ATA spec, the
> connector is not powered. There are reserved pins but if you added
> power and then the pin was implemented on a device in the future it
> would be my responsibilty since I did not conform to the spec. Won't
> happen Captain. :)
> 
> 
> Quoting "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:01:40PM -0600, Mark Marlette wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Correct,  unlike SCSI, IDE does not have TERMPWR available in the
>>
>>connector
>>
>>>so external power must come from another device.
>>
>>How about support for 2.5" IDE drives (like used in
>>notebooks)...pretty
>>sure they get signal and power through the same connector -- and,
>>you could probably mount the drive inside the "pak" case!
>>
>>Just a thought...
>>
>>John
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> 
> 
> 
There are cheap adapters that go between normal IDE and Laptop IDE 
drives, since the pins are closer and power.  I have a few of these, I 
used to use them for copying images to both PC's amd laptops.


David Hazelton