Metalguy66 wrote:
... so the best deal is to just use the existing internal hardisk power circuit from the A1200, and make a small adaptor cable. ..
Another solution: When I put a 3.5" harddisk in my A1200 looong ago, did fit right under the keyboard, parts of the board-shielding had to go, I built a Y-cable for the internal floppy diskdrive power supply to get power to the 3.5" IDE harddisk, worked very fine.
To avoid power problems when I later added a Blizzard 1230-II, I exchanged the external psu to a stronger one of an old A500. The 3.5" harddisk worked for years inside the A1200.
PS. I also built an IDE-cable "adapter" myself (at that time, adapters were not available) by using a standard 3.5" cable, cutting off one connector, splicing the single cables, removing little plastic leftovers between the cables and plugging them by hand in a 2.5" selfcutting connector. Had an exciting time, connecting all this for the first time to the at that time 2 weeks old brand new in the market A1200... and it worked, phew. :crazy:
