[Gllug] Connecting up a 2.5" HDD in a normal PC

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 15 Aug, John Winters wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My father's Acorn A3020 seems to have turned up its toes and died.  True
> to form he hasn't backed up his HDD in a long time and would quite like
> his data back.  AFAICS, the fault is not the HDD - the machine crashes
> within a few moments of powering on, even without accessing the HDD, 
> (The OS is in ROM.)
> 
> I believe it should be possible to copy off the data using a Linux box
> and the ADFS module, but the drive is a 2.5" one and AFAICS has only a
> ribbon cable going to it - no separate power lead.  Does anyone know if
> you can get adapters to connect 2.5" drives inside a normal PC?
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
   I have heard that they suffer from moving backplanes and dirty
connections, check and re-seat all the connections before you give up hope.


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Chris Bell

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