[Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

[Brian Blake]

HI Jason,

I saw the pics yesterday, they look great. Definitely DIY and definitely
cool.

The hot-swap chassis makes for an interesting, yet attractive floppy case.



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jason Law <jmlaw at iprimus.com.au> wrote:


> Hi Brian,

>

> I've actually finished them now, but thanks for the suggestion.

>

> Here's how they look:

>

> http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx18/JasonsCoCo3/DiskDrives/drives.jpg

>

> You'll see a few more pics in a later mailing list post showing what the

> cases are from.

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com

> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]On Behalf Of Brian Blake

> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:13 AM

> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

> Subject: Re: [Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

>

>

> You could check the mailing list to see if anyone has an empty FD-50x case

> they'd be willing to part with. I'm running 2 x 3.5" drives in an FD-501

> case with original ps.

>

>

>

>

> Brian

>

>

>

>

>

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jason Law <jmlaw at iprimus.com.au> wrote:

>

> > Hi Andrew,

> >

> > Thanks for the links.

> >

> > I did some google-ing last night and found this:

> >

> >

> >

>

> http://www.8starshop.com/en/12v-5v-ac-adapter-for-hard-disk-drive-power-supp

> > ly.html

> >

> > Certainly capable of running two 3.5" floppy drives with a y cable.

> >

> > Also cheap enough :D

> >

> > I'm thinking what I'll do is buy one of these and put a 4 pin female DIN

> on

> > the end of the power cable and a male socket in the back of the case.

> >

> > The case would not need to be much bigger than the drives. Also easier to

> > salavage the floppy drive connector cables from an old PC power supply

> and

> > just solder them in parallel to the male 4 pin DIN.

> >

> > Sound like a plan?

> >

> > No just the case... Duct tape would do it but I'm sure I could find

> > somnething that looks a little nicer :D

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com

> > [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]On Behalf Of Andrew

> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:07 AM

> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com

> > Subject: Re: [Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

> >

> >

> > Jason,

> >

> > If you're willing to spend a little money, I am sure you can find a

> > suitable power supply at All Electronics or some other online surplus

> > electronics retailer; something like this:

> >

> >

> >

>

> http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/PS-7607/POWER-SUPPLY-5.1V/3A

> > -12.0V/2A-5.0V/.34A/1.html

> >

> > I know I purchased one from All Electronics several years back for an

> > AMD586-based motherboard MP3 player project; it ran the hard drive, the

> > motherboard, and peripheral cards (ethernet and sound) - on occasion, as

> > I was developing hardware interfaces and such (keypad + LCD hanging off

> > the parallel port), I needed to use a cd-rom drive and floppy, and it

> > powered those fine as well.

> >

> > If that doesn't work, then if you can find an old TIVO, they have some

> > excellent power supplies in them that are fairly small, and easily

> removed.

> >

> > Another possibility (though more expensive) is a Pico-PSU - they run off

> > a (hefty) 12 VDC PSU, and are meant for Car PC and other embedded apps;

> > they don't look like much (they are really small), but they should be

> > powerful enough for running a couple of floppy drives. I have one in a

> > robotics project that powers a Micro-ATX ATOM motherboard, two 2.5 250gb

> > drives, a RAID card, and a wireless router:

> >

> > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.417/.f

> >

> > Hope this helps!

> >

> > -- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona

> >

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