From: Bob Romprey (zoot@farts.com)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 03:21:59 CET
I think I got my last adapter at www.computersurplusoutlet.com
and as I said I think it cost about $5 US including a set of rails to adapt the thing to fit a standard 3.5" case cage.
winsor
>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:00:20 -0500
>From: Gene Smith <gds@chartertn.net>
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: Re: 386sx 4mb
>
>Bob Romprey wrote:
>>
>> You might want to actually count the wires in the ribbon cable,
>> I've used several notebook hard disks in the past, I'm thinking that they have 42? wires ( power wires included in the ribbon cable itself).
>> Adapters can be purchased to adapt these to plug into a standard 40 wire ribbon cable with an external set of power wires using the standard 4 wire male/female plug.
>> I think I paid about $5.00 US for the last adapter I bought of this type.
>>
>> winsor
>
>Thanks to all for info and suggestions. Yes the ribbon cable has 44
>wires and even has the filled in "key" pin like standard cables, just
>denser. Someone provided a link to a site on the drive and seagate also
>has a "legacy" page and manual on it. They just call it an AT cable. I
>don't know if that is the same as what is now called IDE or ATA (I'm not
>an expert on any of this). The cable also provides the power to the
>drive since the drive does not have a separate "molex" style power
>plug. Where did you get the adapter for this cable?
>
>Creating the UMBDOS stuff on my desktop machine and doing a multi-volume
>zip to the small machine sounds promising, but guess I am going to have
>to find out what UMBDOS is :) -Gene
>
>
>>
>> >Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>> >Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:00:18 +0100
>> >From: Christoph LUDWIG <C1.Ludwig@gmx.de>
>> >To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>> >Subject: Re: 386sx 4mb
>> >
>> >Try to install muLinux to your "big" machine (UMSDOS-clone) and then zip the hole
>> >C:\LINUX-folder from DOS and carry this zip-file to your small computer; unzip it
>> >and it should work fine.
>> >You can carry this zipped file either per Zip-Disk or via nullmodem-cable or ...
>> >Christoph
>> >
>> >
>> >Gene Smith wrote:
>> >
>> >> I opened up the 386sx box and the disk drive has a ide ribbon cable
>> >> going to it but it is much more dense than standard ide cables used in
>> >> my pentium machine. The drive is a seagate st9144a which must be a
>> >> design for laptops I would guess. The comupter is a Texas Instruments
>> >> 386ATM which acts as a coprocessor to a TI555 plc (programmable logic
>> >> controller) both of which are now made by Siemens. So I would need to
>> >> find some way to adapt the fine pitched ide ribbon to standard ide to
>> >> install the seagate drive in my desktop pc.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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