On 4/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One of my mythtv frontend systems was running off of a laptop drive. I<br>Obviously, this thing was cheap.. especially if it failed. Am I sure it<br>failed? Well, two known-good laptop drives won't even spin up with it.
<br><br>So.. since I need a replacement to get this FE back up and running, does<br>anyone have any recommendations as to where to buy this in the hopes<br>that I might actually get one that is made a bit better than this one here?
<br></blockquote></div><br>2.5" to 3.5" adapters are purely passive - there are no electronic components involved. So the only way they can fail is if there is a break in a wire somewhere. Is there any obvious damage to the adapter? Are you sure it's not the IDE controller or the
3.5" cable that's the problem?<br><br>If you do need to replace the adapter I'd recommend just getting another cheap one. Around these parts they go for about US$5-10, including mounting bracket. There's really not enough to them to justify paying much extra for the promise of quality.
<br><br>Steve<br><br>