SATA drives have a different power connector. The connector is also flat like the sata connector and wider. Some power supplies have this sata connector other don't and sometimes they suppy a conversion cable with the drive.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- Toine http://www.repiuk.nl -- 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.
