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anyone use a laptop hdd in their emu?
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Sun May 13, 2007 9:15 pmby livewire
Im wanna put a laptop drive in my emu, i have a special ide cable that goes from regular 3.5 inch ide to 2.5 inch laptop ide connection. I havea spare 40 gb lap top hdd here and It does not require any seperate power cable. Anyone else tried this?
I know I need to update to 4.7 first to use ide and FAT which is a prob of its own as the EOS7 exe from emu keeps prematurley aboritng when I try to make the image to floppy from dos , but thasts another story!
Posted:
Mon May 14, 2007 4:35 amby lordtoranaga
I do,
20GB IBM
with a cheap $5 adapter.
works great, and silent.
Posted:
Mon May 14, 2007 11:37 amby livewire
nice one all i need is for the eos4.7 image creatr to work for me now!
keeps prematurley failing in dos.
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Mon May 14, 2007 9:28 pmby livewire
what did u use for power, i have a 3.5 inch ide to 2.5 inch ide adaptor but it only has a molex on it , emu has like a small floppy power port. maybe i coudl make one..
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Mon May 14, 2007 9:42 pmby lordtoranaga
I made mine.
I had to splice together two different cables.
I had to cross the yellow cable with the red, and everything was cake.
I just used heavy duty velcro to attach the drive to the case.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:05 pmby livewire
i found a connecotr on an old psu unit for the pc, it has black , red and another black and a yellow, can you explain exactly how you did the wires, i tried putting red to black and black to red but no go , i did that coz i know they reversed the polarity, but it just dont spin up.
cheers.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:13 pmby lordtoranaga
do search,
there is a link to awebsite, on exacly how to do it, w/photo
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:20 pmby livewire
with a laptop drive?
nice ill try and find , just tried every combo of wires and not one works.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:21 pmby lordtoranaga
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:22 pmby lordtoranaga
I also used a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. that needs no special wiring
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:23 pmby livewire
Unfortunatly this isnt a laptop hdd its scsi , also it doesnt show you how to do the cabling for power.
strange thing is my laptop drive doesnt usually require any seperate power, anyone else here installed a laptop hdd in their emu, can you help me out with the power wiring?
many thanks.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:24 pmby livewire
i have a cable that converts 3.5 ide to 2.5 ide but it has a molex attached to it aswel, dont usually need that with my 2.5 inch enclosure but it wont spin up with it or without it. I even attached a power adaptor that fits the emu hdd power port but no idea how to do the wiring.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:28 pmby lordtoranaga
good luck
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:30 pmby livewire
could you perhaps link me to the laptop hdd kit you use ?
cheers.
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:39 pmby lordtoranaga
you have to swap the red and yellow cables
If you do it wrong you will destroy your drive
i used one of these
