HD help please.

[Excalibur]

Sorry mate, but you've deciphered correctly.... take the lump(drive) out... un-screw the IDE drive, and then plug into your USB>IDE adapter.


Sadly, not what you (or I) want.I emailed NuMark, trying to find a souce of 5 1/4" drive bays that will allow me to connect their caddys, a reply, but no help.

Jason

I find it hard to believe that we're the only ones wanting to do this. Why has nobody made such an adaptor?

[Jay]

On the numark website, they mention using a Alesis FirePort 1394, but a google search suggests they are aroung £160. I haven't been able to find anything cheaper as I too would like to do this.

[Excalibur]

On the numark website, they mention using a Alesis FirePort 1394, but a google search suggests they are aroung £160. I haven't been able to find anything cheaper as I too would like to do this.

Perhaps we should start a club?





Wanders off to see the an Alesis Fireport 1394 is.

[Jiggles]

What is the connector on the caddy?

[Excalibur]

What is the connector on the caddy?

How the should I know? I haven't got it yet.

There's no piccy of the back on here, sadly.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/numark_dds_caddy.htm

[Jiggles]

How the should I know? I haven't got it yet.

There's no piccy of the back on here, sadly.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/numark_dds_caddy.htm

If you don't know, then you are just stabbing in the dark!

[Excalibur]

If you don't know, then you are just stabbing in the dark!

Well nothing new there then!

Callum, thanks for your interest and help, it's appreciated. this Alesis gubbins appears to have a purpose, and an extortionate price tag!!
http://www.htfr.com/more-info/MR338497

Whatever the connector is on the back of the caddy, it obviously has a mate inside the Numark drive unit. Perhaps we should have asked Chris (Peacock ) to post a piccy after all?

Chris, piccy please? Pretty please?

[Jay]

when I get home tonight I'll post a pic of it all to see whats what

[deltic]

here speaketh a man who had a dds80

the bit you can't buy is the cradle which the hd plugs into,you can buy the caddy so in effect you could alternate and run different drives

the unit you have purchased has a usb socket on the back for attaching to computer to update,which is a pain in the preverbial,as you have to have flight case in proximity to the computer.

the connector on the back of the caddy looks very much like the old paralel connector which used to be on printers before usb.
even if the connector is the same as the old paralel one you would still have to find a way of powering the drive

this might be worth looking at
http://en.vipower.com/products01.php...=120#SmartDOCK

[Excalibur]

here speaketh a man who had a dds80

Good man, that's the type of person we need here. You can't beat frist hand experience.

the bit you can't buy is the cradle which the hd plugs into,you can buy the caddy so in effect you could alternate and run different drives

Oh poo, so much for experience.

the unit you have purchased has a usb socket on the back for attaching to computer to update,which is a pain in the preverbial,as you have to have flight case in proximity to the computer.

No change there, then. Situation normal.

the connector on the back of the caddy looks very much like the old paralel connector which used to be on printers before usb.
even if the connector is the same as the old paralel one you would still have to find a way of powering the drive

this might be worth looking at
http://en.vipower.com/products01.php...=120#SmartDOCK

Why oh why oh why doesn't such an animal exist? There's obviously a dire need for the thing. We've got an order for a truckload here already.