I just cooked a nice 18gig ibm travelstar laptop disk. The mode
in which I did so was utterly predictable, but having the learning
experience the hard way is always a good reminder. I'm passing this
one on in the hopes that you won't have the learning experience the
hard way.
There are a lot of products on the market at this point for
accessing 2.5" laptop hard disks from things other than laptops; if
you're like me, you collect handy adapters like these to get between
different systems when you need to.
Every single one of these 2.5" ide connectors I have is not keyed
(one of the holes in the connector is supposed to be filled in).
Because of the way the laptop IDE connector is setup, you can very
easily plug the connector in dozens of different wrong ways, and yes,
laptop IDE disks are powered off that connector. You can guess what
happens when you do an off by N plug in. I love the smell of ozone
and charred traces on monday.
If you spend a lot of connectors like these floating around, do
yourself a favor and save yourself some grief with a penny's worth of
epoxy.
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