Obvious questions, yeah. The answer seem to be no on both :-) Can't hear no spinning, so most likely it has no power.
The obvious next question is, why? I can't find any power contacts from the power supply that matches any connections on the drive. So I was assuming the power was integrated into the SATA cable. Why do they make things so complicated with all this odd incompatible standards? Puters sucks. MaritimTim 2008/3/25, Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mar 25, 2008, at 13:38, Tim Øsleby wrote: > > What I have done is to connect the drive to the motherboard with > > something I beleave is a SATA cable. According to my little knowledge > > this should do the trick. But it don't. Any ideas? Have I got it > > completely wrong? > > > > I don't use SATA at all (yet) but I've got to ask the obvious question: > > Is the drive spinning up? Does it have power? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
