In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Egbert Jan writes:

>Now I had another sneaky plan: to feed the
>diskdrive via a separate regulator (7805).

A 7805 will not be able to start a disk, most disks have peak
current demands well over 1A during spinup.

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