IIRC the last SATA drive I installed had a standard power connector. Tim Øsleby wrote: > 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. >> >>
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