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In message Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:38:33 +0200, uwe@odb.rhein-main.de (Tim Vetter) writes: >>Say, since you've overflowing with all this info on the TP drives, do you >> know where we can buy a case for it, or where we can buy the funky >> little connector inside the case? (Actually, I've tracked down the >> plug at the drive end, it's just the cable and the TP plug I need) > > Does this mean if we got hold of the TP-end plug we could connect up a > drive *without* the case? Presumably the cable itself is trivial, just > normal ribbon stuff -- all that's needed is the plugs at either end. I Well, the case is trivial - just epoxy some pieces of plastic together. The cable is the problem - it isn't the normal ribbon type cable. It looks like metal etched onto a flexible plastic backing. The widths of the plugs on either end are different so the cable compresses the wires into a smaller width at one end. > Furthermore, is it conceivable then that this would allow attachment of > arbitrary IDE drives, ie by running the ribbon cable outside the TP's > housing, or are the electrical characteristics of TP drives unique somehow > (aside from the normal considerations of power-draw). You could, but if you blow the fuse on the TP in this manner, your warranty is gone. IBM wasn't able to/wouldn't tell me the maximum power the hard drive should draw so all we have is the IBM drives themselves to go on. Someone else had that information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John H. Kim | "Mike Espy simply forgot he was no longer a Congressman." jokim@mit.edu | -anonymous, on the Secretary of Agriculture's resignation jokim@uni.uiuc.edu | due to conflict of interest charges for accepting gifts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------