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by **livewire** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:15 pm

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!

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:35 am

I do,

20GB IBM
with a cheap $5 adapter.

works great, and silent.

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:37 am

nice one all i need is for the eos4.7 image creatr to work for me now!

keeps prematurley failing in dos.

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:28 pm

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..

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:42 pm

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.

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:05 pm

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.

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:13 pm

do search,

there is a link to awebsite, on exacly how to do it, w/photo

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:20 pm

with a laptop drive?

nice ill try and find , just tried every combo of wires and not one works.

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:21 pm

http://www.peterandrew.com/music/studio ... drive.html

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:22 pm

I also used a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. that needs no special wiring

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:23 pm

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.

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:24 pm

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.

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:28 pm

good luck

by **livewire** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:30 pm

could you perhaps link me to the laptop hdd kit you use ?

cheers.

by **lordtoranaga** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:39 pm

you have to swap the red and yellow cables

If you do it wrong you will destroy your drive

i used one of these

emusonacid! legacy

anyone use a laptop hdd in their emu?

anyone use a laptop hdd in their emu?