If you want to use an external power supply for your harddisks, try wat I did with my MSX and with that one of my friend: I used a big desktop PC case and build in the complete 8250 MSX, slotexpander and harddrives. I use the original powersupply from the old 8250 case for the MSX board and the PC Powersupply for the drives, Harddisk, ZIP and slotexpander. I connected the mains together so if I switch the PC case on or off the MSX switches at the same time. The old 8250 case I mounted with a harddisk on top of the 8250 MSX of my friend and fitted a very small powersupply in to it to power the drive. The mains for this powersupply comes from the MSX underneath, so it switches when he powers on/off the MSX. The flatcable comes from the BERT SCSI interface trough the cartridge hole of the top case to the harddisk. In both cases, I fitted a 50 pin Centronics female connector as well as an 5 pin DIN plug for supplying power for external devices to allow extra equipment to be connected. I used the original MSX powersupply in the PC case, because somebody told me that the switching behavour of a PC powersupply could dammage the MSX board. I don't know if this is true, but I didn't take the chance. On my Turbo R I have a 200Mb Harddisk fitted into an old IBM CDROM case, witch has his own powersupply. The slotexpander on this computer has no external powerplug and is therefor powered by the Turbo R. Maybe I gave you enough Ideas to go on. HAPZEE **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) ****
