On 5 Jan 2004 10:30:37 -0800, Brian Farmer staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> PCMCIA to 60GB Hard Drive. Is this possible?

Elaborate, please. What is it you really want? I think it'd be pretty
easy to buy a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card, buy a USB 2.0 hard drive cage, stick
any size drive you want into the cage, and wire everything together.
That should Just Work provided you're using a kernel >= 2.4.18. You
probably won't be able to boot from the USB drive though.

> Do I need a cable adaptor to go from PCMCIA to ATA/EIDE?

I don't know of any PCMCIA cards that provide an interface for plugging
in a standard IDE cable, but the SUPPORTED-CARDS list in a recent
pcmcia-cs distribution tells me they exist. The hardware may be hard to
find/obsolete though, while a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card is about $20 according
to pricewatch.com . Your call, HTH,

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On 5 Jan 2004 10:30:37 -0800, Brian Farmer
probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
> PCMCIA to 60GB Hard Drive. Is this possible? Do I need a cable adaptor
> to go from PCMCIA to ATA/EIDE?

There's an old product called DN-BOY which lets you shove a 2.5" drive into
a case and hook a PCMCIA IDE card into it. Ebay has a few of them.

If you're trying to put in a 3.5" drive in there, you'll looking for an
external HD case with a PCMCIA Adapter to it. At most you can do is
parallel port IDE.

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