[Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

[Brian Blake]

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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