Hi A better alternative would be to get a *good* +5 volt external power supply rated at a couple of amps. Then you could at least run the +5 only flavor of disks.
Bob On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Egbert Jan wrote: > As we all know is the powersupply of the Net4801 not really capable of > feeding diskdrive, CF and Wifi miniPCI all together at the same > time. I've > tried an adapter with slightly more voltage and that helped a bit > but was > not as relieable as I could wish. Now I had another sneaky plan: to > feed the > diskdrive via a separate regulator (7805). I cut both pin 41 and 42 > in the > short interconnect (this is logic and power Vcc 5V) but I only get a > flashing disk LED. > > I tapped the input voltage for the 7805 directly from the power > connector > (solder side PCB) aasuming that the GND of the power adapter is the > GND for > the whole circuit. > > Any one (Henrik? Soeren?) willing to shed some light here? > > Tnx > Egbert Jan (NL) > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
