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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I thought Steven said it hooked to the IDE controller (the 'pins').
> > Which is it?  If to the cable, these might fit into one of those boxes
> > intended for use with external hard drives that goes into a 5.25" bay and
> > is attached to an IDE cable that plugs into the controller.   How long is
> > this adaptor?
>
> Mine hooks to a cable (male plug on the adaptor). It is mounted on a card
> about 2 inches by 3 inches. The card has holes in it, probably in the same
> locations hard drives have mounting holes in their bottoms. For someone
> like your partner, I'm sure it wouldn't be an insurmountable task to make
> one of these mount in or on the case somewhere. As to not having free IDE
> channels: you could do what I read about one guy doing, which is to
> fashion a special IDE cable with 3 plugs and hook 3 IDE devices on one
> channel. Then, you use a toggle switch that turns on/off 12V power to two
> of the three (which allows you to toggle between two of the three).
> Needless to say, any such devices should not be automounted.

We might be able to get such a card working in something designed for use 
in a large bay for inserting hard drives temporarily, without actually 
mounting them (no screws, just plug and maybe screw them into a second 
case that fits inside the first one which is in the bay).

We gave the cases to our bbs to consider for use in making backups but if 
they come back we will look more closely into this.  That would let us use 
the card at two locations.

Compact flash is looking a lot better than Smartmedia cards - cheaper, 
comes in larger sizes, and more versatile.  I wonder if they make serial 
cameras that also use it.

 > > James
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