You can get SCSI External case with power supplies and fans for $6 on Ebay. These
cases allow you to insert your internal drive and it becomes an external drive.
On 10 Mar 2004 at 7:34, Matt Ferrari r2d2 moo spoke unto me:
> Im am seriously considering taking a maxtor or other hard drive
> that would normally be mounted on the inside of the EMAX and
> enclosing it in a case with a power supply and some sort of conversion
> to make the pin setup work with the external scci connection.
> I dont know how practical it is to do this, but the reason I want
> to do it
> is because I moved my emaxII that has a maxtor 540s installed inside
> with maybe 150 meg of the 500 filled with samples and it must have got
> bumped or something because all of the banks disappeard and I had to
> reformat it, because the sampler wouldnt reconize it.
> I also have an old apple 100 meg external hard drive that made the
> trip
> fine.
> I have another maxtor 540 drive that I have been using as a paper
> weight on
> my desk That I could use as a model to make the enclosure and then buy
> another drive at the end of the project, I of course wouldnt be
> opposed to finding a 500 meg external hard drive if I knew were I
> could get one that would work and wasnt alot of dough.
>
> Im going to talk to a computer store and see how much for a
> supply
> to power the drive and see if the cables can be done...
>
> As I said Im sure no one ever does it this way because of the work
> involved and maybe the price?
>
> Any advice is always welcome..
>
> Matt
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Re: [emax] *making* an external HD I'm sure no ones done it..
2004-03-10 by John Silveria
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