From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 21 9:25:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (mail1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8639C37BB99 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@sigfpe.com) Received: from c35728-a.almda1.sfba.home.com ([24.1.113.138]) by mail1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000721162550.IBQU28364.mail1.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c35728-a.almda1.sfba.home.com> for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:25:50 -0700 Received: from mobiledan.mvfx.com (mvfx-gw.mvfx.com [207.211.10.2]) by c35728-a.almda1.sfba.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA38874 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:23:37 GMT (envelope-from dan@sigfpe.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mobiledan.mvfx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07359 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:28:15 GMT (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:28:15 +0000 From: Dan Piponi <0x7ff0000e@sigfpe.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000721092815.A5467@mobiledan.mvfx.com> Reply-To: 0x7ff0000e@sigfpe.com Mail-Followup-To: Dan Piponi <0x7ff0000e@sigfpe.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:08:12AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE Organization: can be a good thing Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > drive saying it's good for desktops too. Is it possible to use a > > laptop drive in a desktop? I looked at my laptop hard drive once > > before, and it seemed to me that the power supply cord was somehow > > incorporated into the ribbon cable. > > They make adapters for just that purpose. :) Just received one in the mail. You get a metal bracket that brings the drive up to full size and a little pcb adapter that splits the ide connector into a full size ide connector and a normal power connector. It cost about $8.00 from buy.com. -- Dan Piponi, Head of R&D, Manex Visual Effects To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message