Quoting Russell Coker on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:24:08PM +0100: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:52, Werner Heuser wrote: > > laptop. Especially I don't know how to solve the power > > supply for a 3.5" IDE disk. Since I don't have a desktop, > > but sometimes have to check hard disks from friends > > (my disk is just broken, can you check it with Linux?) this > > is important to me. > > The problem is that desktop hard drives may draw more power than a laptop > (even with plug-pack connected) is capable of supplying. > > I have heard that you can buy a housing bay for an IDE drive with it's own > PSU that connects via USB, although USB limits you to 1.5MB/s. > > You can get the same thing for FireWire which is something I've seen working, > but most laptops seem to lack FW (while they all have USB). > > -- It occurred to me that there are also pcmcia hard disk drives which people have reported using with compaq ipaqs running linux. I have seen these up to 5g in size and I think they are type2 pc cards since they fit in a dual sleeve on an ipaq running familiar linux. I've used a 1g IBM microdrive to move files around between my ipaq and laptop a lot.
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