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Fittings
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:49 am
by 1stallthewayaj
Does anybody have any fittings they can sell me for an Aluminum External HDD Enclosure??? I have this Enclosure and an EIDE 20G HDD that I want to rig up for my Thinkpads...... but no USB or Parallell fittings..
A J A
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:04 pm
by JHEM
No computer swap meets or shows near you AJ?
Last one I was at they had boxes of loose USB cables for $.50 each.
There's always Radio Shack.
Regards,
James
Fittings
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:51 pm
by 1stallthewayaj
Hi James:
I didnt think Radio Shack would carry such items. I am not worried so much about the USB cable as I am about the fittings in the back that the HDD plugs into, that are for a HDD and not a CDROM Drive.
A J A
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:01 pm
by JHEM
AJ,
IDE = IDE, doesn't matter if it's HD, CD or DVD.
Regards,
James
Fittings
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:27 am
by 1stallthewayaj
James: What you are saying is that, I can take an External CD ROM drive case, and replace the CDROM drive with a HDD.....????
A J A
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:39 am
by JHEM
Yep! My first USB1.1 external 3.5" HD case was an old Sony Spressa external CD burner in which the CD had died.
I simply replaced the burner with a spare desktop HD and it worked just fine. Painfully slow, but fine.
I've long ago replaced that with a USB2.0 case, but only because USB1.1 was so slow, not because there was any problem getting it to work.
Regards,
James
fittiings
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:15 am
by 1stallthewayaj
Okay James.... I'll do it!!!
'Preciate it!!!
A J A