[rescue] laptop drive adapter

[Jim Carver]

A word of caution,

Make sure that the desktop machine sees the same drive geometry as the
laptop. Not usually a problem with drives of 512meg and below. But it
does occur. Particularly with some of the ancient Phoenix Bios'. You can
usually set the drive specs in the desktop machine manually. Beats the
heck out of downloading the laptop bios, editing the drive tables and
then reburning or reprograming the laptop 'prom :(

			jim

Scott Newell wrote:
> 
> I've got an old 486 laptop at work (8MB ram, 200 MB drive, no nic, no
> slots) that I'd like to put a very minimal OS on (freebsd, linux,
> something).  The end result will hopefully be a small machine that can be
> shipped to subcontractors so they can test out some embedded hardware with
> GDB.  To that end, I need to get an OS on it!  My current plan is to stick
> the drive on a desktop and do the install and setup on a much faster machine.
> 
> Has anyone seen a cheap source for adapter cables that will run a notebook
> IDE drive on a desktop machine?  I know that I've seen 'em before, but I
> can't remember where.
> 
> newell
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