On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:07:20 +1200 Carl Cerecke wrote: > On 20/08/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:08 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > (Crazy - it has two > > > IDE channels, a separate, specialised CDROM connector, but only one > > > power connector.) > > > > If thats the box which only takes slimline cdrom drives, the slimline > > CDROM is powered (5v only is needed) from the specialised IDE cable - it > > has a couple of extra lines for power. > > Ah, I suspected that. It's probably pretty hard to find the > specialised CDROM, then.
there were several of them on trademe a while ago and I got one for a project that didn't proceed. Damned if I have seen it for a while - renovations, piles of "stuff" blah blah. If you need one I will hunt it out. > > We're geeks. One hard drive is never enough. > it may only take one, but you can get rather large ones in a 3.5 inch form factor these days! you could also try a firewire or usb2 card and get an external (same for the cdrom actually, but it probably won't boot off it). > Cheers, > Carl -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
