[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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