[Coco] Re: Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Robert Emery]

Probably late and already been pointed out, but 2.5" laptop drives work fine
with the Glenside IDE card, and I'd be surprised if the SuperIDE refused to
work with them. The connector is smaller and does indeed have 44 pins, but you
buy an adapter (~5-10 bucks) which allows connection to standard IDE and power
cables.

I have tried two 2.5" IDE drives and both worked fine once I figured out the
drive geometry. One is a Hitachi 850MB and the other is a 20MB drive from an
old NEC '286 laptop. I believe I can still get some 850Meg drives (surplus
units, unlabelled, look new) and the adapter for a total of about $20+shipping
if anyone is interested.

Bob Emery


--- Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com> 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>:
> >
> > 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...
> >
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