On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:32:39PM +0100, Miernik wrote: > How does the situation really look like? I want to use a CF-IDE > female adapter in a standard PGA370 motherboard (non-VIA-EPIA), and > I don't want to have to connect any extra power, like the floppy > power to it. > > Is that possible? I know it's possible for 2.5" disk connectors. > because they have 4 extra power pins, but I mean the standard > 40-pim IDE connectors.
The regular IDE connector has one unused pin which is sometimes used for keying the connector mechanically. Some embedded systems put 5V on that pin, but I doubt any standard motherboard does that. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
