Connect 2.5" drives to PC

[chy at genuity.com (Chuck Young)]

I purchased a cable adapter at U-DO-IT for 5$.

Gotchas:

1: Be sure the power poliarity is correct.  I don't know and don't want to
know what happens when this is mis-connected.

2: Translation is tricky.  Everyone does LBA, but it seems nobody does it in
exactly the same way.  I used to have to pass CHS to the kernel with Lilo -
not sure how it's done today with GRUB.

3: Some drives assert/don't assert cable select.  I had trouble with a fuli
drive once, but found a fix on the net by searching the model number of the
drive.  Had to shunt some pins with a homemade jumper wire.  Probably this
won't affect you (?)

Good luck,

---------------
Chuck Young
Security Consulting
Genuity E-Services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Rob Ransbottom
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Connect 2.5" drives to PC
>
>
> I am looking for a cable adapter[s] to
> connect laptop hard drives to PC motherboards.
>
> The first few drives should be ATA-5 and, I
> believe, are 2.5".
>
> I don't know much about portable drives so
> any tips or gotchas appreciated.
>
> rob                     Live the dream.
>
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