[Soekris] Powersupply Net4801

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <001d01c7c565$725e4d20$0d0aa8c0 at egbert>, Egbert Jan writes:

>Now I had another sneaky plan: to feed the
>diskdrive via a separate regulator (7805).

A 7805 will not be able to start a disk, most disks have peak
current demands well over 1A during spinup.

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