Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?

2001-07-25 Thread Mike Evans
I dared to try powering the HD off the floppy port of the Plus, using that odd cable that fitted both ends, and it worked great! Thanks to everyone for their comments on- and off-list... Mike Evans -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
It draws power from the serial port. But which of the 3 pin ports on the drive itself to use, hmmm? Crack the thing open and do some wire tracing from those two 3 pin ports. Maybe they're just connected together for daisy chaining power to a second drive. I wouldn't try running more than one

Re: Wierd old external hard drive... any ideas on how to power it up?

2001-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:37 +0100 on 23/07/01, Mike Evans wrote: The weird thing is, there is no socket for power at the back. At the back of it, apart from the normal two SCSI ports (Centronics-50), there are just two mini-DIN 8 type sockets (similar -looking to the