rietveld Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Big thanks to coleconut for hooking me up with this harddrive setup. All it needed was a new ide hard drive and it was ready to run 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Congrats on getting it all setup and working. I never realized that the IDE cable needed to be routed through the front of the case until ColecoNut posted some pics... which would have bothered the hell out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, NIAD said: Congrats on getting it all setup and working. I never realized that the IDE cable needed to be routed through the front of the case until ColecoNut posted some pics... which would have bothered the hell out of me. Yes. Looks a bit odd. I noticed that the PCB and case seemed to be the same as the one used for the disk drive. The fan is very loud(and probably only intended for a floppy drive) I am using a single fireball IDE drive with TDOS on it. Edited March 11, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, NIAD said: Congrats on getting it all setup and working. I never realized that the IDE cable needed to be routed through the front of the case until ColecoNut posted some pics... which would have bothered the hell out of me. I just routed the cable through the back. I think this looks better. Edited March 11, 2020 by rietveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamcon Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 12 minutes ago, rietveld said: I just routed the cable through the back. I think this looks better. Way way better, the front opening was to let air in as it is exhausted out the back or vise versa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 I have everything working. There is a wire that connects to the 'Access 'light on the front panel but I can't find anything on the harddrive that it connects to. I assume this was for a floppy drive since the case and PCB seem to have room for those components Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamcon Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 10 hours ago, rietveld said: I have everything working. There is a wire that connects to the 'Access 'light on the front panel but I can't find anything on the harddrive that it connects to. I assume this was for a floppy drive since the case and PCB seem to have room for those components Somewhere, somehow, there is usually a set of pins for a hd light. The trick i to find it. When used for an MI disk drive, is used as a power on light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleconut Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 On 3/10/2020 at 9:13 PM, rietveld said: I noticed that the PCB and case seemed to be the same as the one used for the disk drive. The fan is very loud(and probably only intended for a floppy drive) Floppies are very similar case but no fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I was floored when I first saw the Micro Innovations’ disk drives with the power switch on the back of the drive. If this was a Coleco designed drive, people would have been bitching up a storm like they do about the system power switch being on the back of the printer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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