Thank you Doug. Problem is already solved. I found a connector I had overlooked. But this does not mean that all probs are solved yet. A new one came up right after this. Now I'm feed up for today. Will call support tomorrow.
MaritimTim (who will never buy puters in parts again) 2008/3/25, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. > > It sounds like you need either > > a) a converter from the normal 4-pin power connector for a PATA hard > drive to the smaller connector for an SATA drive > > or > > b) a new power supply that has the connectors already there > > The converter is much cheaper and should be available at your local > computer store. > > There should be two cables going to the drive, and they look a lot alike > except the connectors are a little different. The one with the smaller > connector is for the power and the other one is the data line. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > > -- > 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.
