Hello

I bought two neat little hard drives to use with my IDE64. I am 
assuming I need a power supply for the drives, since they
are internal drives and didn't come with a ps. I've been looking
around the internet for one, but have not found anything yet. I 
thought Radio Shack would have something  but the website
wasn't much help. Does anyone have any ideas on where to 
find one.

Thanks

Pretty much any kind of AT or ATX PC power supply will work. It doesn't even
need to be too good of quality (read: cheap generic is fine) as you're not
even gonna be using the motherboard power from it. I'm assuming the drives
that you bought are normal sized 3.5" drives.

Here's a couple of ideas for a nicer looking solution..
1> Get a small external storage case. These have a small power supply with
just the 4 pin connectors. If you just want to use 1 drive, here's a $20
solution :) http://www.antec-inc.com/Cart.bok?smode=add&product_no=122  Not
sure what kind of connector is on the back of this, but it should be super
simple to remove it along with the internal ribbon if need be and just run
an ide ribbon from the ide64 through the hole to the drive. Antec makes good
quality stuff. There are external storage cases for 2 (or more) drives too,
but I'm too lazy to go look :D It seems that Antec is dropping most
everything that isn't a PC case and selling off remaining stock super cheap.
If my memory serves me right, these same enclosures were selling for $75-100
when they were fresh on the market.

1a> Pretty much any external hard drive enclosure will work. You can always
gut the interface/cables out of it. As long as the power supply is left in,
and there's a place in the case to run an ide ribbon through after you rip
out the existing cabling, you should be all set. USB, firewire, scsi,
whatever..

2> Get a small power supply made for the tiny computers that are out now.
Like the Shuttle XPC computers. I'd stick with the above though, it'll look
nicer and is probably 1/2 the cost of a mini ITX or XPC sized power supply.

But if you have a big old PC power supply laying around and don't care what
it looks like, feel free to use it :) Hope this answers your question.. If
you need anything else, just lemme know.

-P


"M Samuels" <martin@bbtel.com> wrote in message
news:24f9b169.0308222246.45e23995@posting.google.com...
> Hello
>
> I bought two neat little hard drives to use with my IDE64. I am
> assuming I need a power supply for the drives, since they
> are internal drives and didn't come with a ps. I've been looking
> around the internet for one, but have not found anything yet. I
> thought Radio Shack would have something  but the website
> wasn't much help. Does anyone have any ideas on where to
> find one.
>
> Thanks

Hi,
Any Powersupply 110 V (baby AT will work fine - checkout thrift store
for old junky pc for $5, rape it for its powersupply and/or
motherboard.  All you need is to connect the 4 pin cable... no need for
motherboard... all you need is such a powersupply... lol i guess i'm too
repeatitive... email me with questions if any...
see ya
Burt
www.museum.c64.org

Hi,

I used an old external CD-Rom case, the type that has a printer port
connector on it. I removed the IDE to Parallel board as it wasn't necessary
and gave me a bit more room.

With that board removed it left just enough space to mount an small laptop
hard drive and cdrom drive. I hooked them both up using the newer rounded
IDE cables and threaded the cable out where the printerport connector used
to be.

Mike


On 22 Aug 2003 23:46:12 -0700, martin@bbtel.com (M Samuels) wrote:

>Hello
>
>I bought two neat little hard drives to use with my IDE64. I am 
>assuming I need a power supply for the drives, since they
>are internal drives and didn't come with a ps. I've been looking
>around the internet for one, but have not found anything yet. I 
>thought Radio Shack would have something  but the website
>wasn't much help. Does anyone have any ideas on where to 
>find one.
>
>Thanks