I found the power cord. It was there all the time :-) Now my next problem is to get the puter to understand that this new drive is 500MB instead of 131MB.
MaritimTim 2008/3/25, Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Toine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > You need two cables going into the SATA drive, data and power. Older > power supplies don't have the SATA power connector and most SATA > drives don't have the older type power connector, so you need a little > converter device. > > It could be worse. I recently had to buy one. How do you say "power > cable converter" in Chinese when none of the sales people speak > decent English! > > -- > Sandy Harris, > Nanjing, China > > -- > 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.
