emusonacid! legacy

what do you guys think about this. I am concerned about backing up my samples. I want them off my zip disk asap. I do have a hard drive that i use to have in my old computer. as some of you know, i rebuilt my computer a few months. It is a 9 gig hd, and that is enough memory for what i need. the problem is, I don't have the mounting kit and i have heard that the emu's power supply plug is backwards. So here is something that i thought of today at work. tell if you think this is going to be safe...

my idea is, to open the emu up, hook up the hd to the board with an ide cable, then use a spare power supply to run the hd. i would turn on the power supply before turning on the emu, then turn on the emu. Do you guys think this would be alright or could i cause some major problems doing this. this would be a temp thing, just so i can back my stuff up. wednesday i am going to order from that site that was mentioned here about the scsi controllers so i can convert that hd to an external.

tell me what you guys think.

I can't see what harm you'd do, so long as you're careful... but how are you going to use this HD in an external box when the emu doesn't have a socket for external IDE drives? or is the drive a scsi drive? it's difficult to tell from what you told us...
but anyway the psu in the emu should be butch enough to run a 9Gb drive, whatever sort it is.
the IDE mounting kit, as mentioned elsewhere on this forum, is expensive to buy from emu. it has the +v & ground connections reversed but is otherwise nothing special. both my e5k & e4x have clearly-marked power takeoff points for HD's on the main board near the back left corner.
hth-
duncan.

my thought is to take the cover off the sampler and connect the hd as if it is going to be internal but use a spare power supply so i don't have to deal with either rewiring a power supply cord or buying an expensive thing from emu. then, once i have all my samples and presets switched over, i was going to convert the hd to an external hd, by buying a scsi controller.

stuff is just getting so hard to find now, if you do find it, it is either way to new, the emu can't handle it, or it is way too expensive.

thanks.

yea i bet that would work fine. it should be the same voltage.