[ILUG] [OT] 2.5mm HDD

[Baldwin_James at emc.com]

Hey Dave,

2.5" 's as you know are laptop drives and have a completely different
connector set.  They also use 5V only and not 12V(for motor)+5V Data....in
saying that, if for some undying reason you want to use the drive in a
desktop, you can get converters for these drives to accept the Std. 3.5"
40-way IDE cable + Power.

The connector on a 2.5" is a straight 44-way (44-AFAIK) which includes 5v.

As for Dealers, you might try to purchase from Dell, or the hardware distros
from http://www.linux.ie/vendors/hardware.php or else UK, Dabs are
reasonable.

Best O'Luck,
J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Airlie [mailto:airlied at skynet.ie]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:07 PM
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] [OT] 2.5mm HDD



Anyone know anywhere that sells these in Ireland, most places have 3.5 but
not 2.5s ...

And are all 2.5s the same? do they have standardised connectors?

Dave.

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