From: Gene Smith (gds@chartertn.net)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 06:00:20 CET
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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