[Coco] Re: Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Dave Poitras]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Marlette"
>
> 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. :)

Mark & all,

I have 5 of the laptop drives.  I have used them with the IDE PAK with 
a simple adapter that are usually on eBay for around $4.00. They work 
quite well.

Dave