[Soekris] 3.5 hard drive on 4801?

[Stuart Henderson]

--On 04 November 2004 11:29 -0800 William Estrada
<mrumunhum at popdial.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
>   Does anyone have experience installing a 3.5 inch hard drive on a
> Soekris 4801?  Will the board power supply have enough power for
> the drive?  Can you safely add an external 12V power supply to
> power the 3.5 drive or other componets?

Many drives work (assuming you have the correct cable or adapter: I
think I used a 2.5"-3.5" adapter that had a socket on one side and
pins on the other). Think I'd choose to feed from a separate PSU
(some external PSU with a PC-standard 4-pin Molex exist which are
designed to power drives connected by USB2->IDE adapter cables, and
often supplied with those cables, otherwise you could use a standard
PC power supply - if it's ATX, grounding the green cable on the
motherboard connector will get it to power-up without a motherboard
attached, though this does bypass the power-good circuitry normally
used to check the voltage is OK).

Søren mentioned in
<http://lists.forko.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2003-September/003716.html>
that comBIOS supported only LBA28, and that LBA48 support wouldn't
appear until 2.5" drives required it. Assuming that's still the case,
you're limited to 137GB.