At 01:02 +0200 on 01/08/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>>At 18:37 -0400 on 31/07/01, Robert Poland wrote:
>>
>>>>Got one downstairs somewhere but don't think I ever actually used it
>>>>because I've been too busy with other stuff. Oh, and my Plus' HD is using
>>>>its floppy port for power, too, I think, so I can't use an external
>>>>floppy...
>>>
>>>Guess I was lucky, my CMS 20M HD (now 40M) uses the SCSI port.
>>
>>Oh, the StarDrive uses the SCSI port too, but it just doesn't have an
>>external power cable - it draws power from the floppy port. Mebbe I oughta
>>figure out how to put a wall wart on it or something, or put a daisy-chain
>>floppy connector on it.
>>
>Do these floppy port powered hard disks have fans or are they quiet?
This one doesn't have a fan, but it's not particularly quiet either :)
That, of course, is the fault of the mechanism, not the enclosure, and
would go away if you put a quieter, lower-power mechanism inside it. The
one in there now is the original 30MB Seagate and is only marginally less
noisy than a Miniscribe.
p
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