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I put this contraption together using a Dynex brand Harddrive enclosure from Best Buy, IDE ribbon, and a Y-splitter power connector. I tried this the first time and only got one to work, then realized I didn't have the jumper settings right. This time I have the harddrive set to slave and my Pioneer 111D to master (doesn't matter what order though). It all connects via USB and is on my laptop, so I can make my backups using my laptop now.
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cool man
i know you were trying to get that going.

from the look of it your Dr. Pepper guy :lol:
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does the trick ;)

looks like you are a big dr pepper drinker :P
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Its ......its ........its hideous! :o :o :o :D :D :D just kiddin man. glad you got it working. Doesn't all that stuff need to be grounded?
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CoFree wrote:cool man
i know you were trying to get that going.

from the look of it your Dr. Pepper guy :lol:
lol.. same thoughts man :mrgreen:
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Yeah, me and my roommate live on Dr. Pepper. Last year it was all Mt. Dew for me, but now its the Dr.

I got back on this because I was uninstalling Linux and it messed up my XP partition so I'm reinstalling that. I also had just backed up Devil May Cry 4 and I had to plug up the harddrive and my burner to the setup so I could burn the ISO.

It works fine... I don't know about ground, haven't had any problems. It'd probably be a good idea but I like living on the edge.
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With that setup, it is grounded. Its whats termed as a floating ground though. The molex connectors black wires provide the ground channel back through the PC that it's connect to, which is either grounded through the chassis, or through the AC plug if its connected that way. If something were to happen, the laptop would take the brunt of the hit, but then again, it being a laptop, it would take the hit anyway unless it were plugged in by AC.
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Thanks for clarifying that sadlius. I assumed that there was a ground in the wire, but I wondered if it needed to be grounded to the case. Good to know.
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lol opti-free

I hated that stuff in the contact days, probably had 100 bottles of it laying around
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Lol, interesting setup man. Couldn't you accomplish the same thing by getting a 5.25'' USB enclosure and Dual Layer writer though?
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Nah, haha. I didn't have the money to order one and couldnt find one at work. It works great though, and I have a Pioneer 111D DL burner...
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Yeah I feel ya on that, the economy is horrendous right now. Either way, nice ingenuity man!
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Jman 31 wrote:Its ......its ........its hideous! :o :o :o :D :D :D just kiddin man. glad you got it working. Doesn't all that stuff need to be grounded?
for certain drives and hardware you dont need it as it is prvided through the molex connector like sadalius said. with the old hardware which came out in year 2001 and under tends to short when they are kept outside atleast that happened to me twice it will shut the pc up, so its really better to put em inside and touch the chassis and stuff to ground it.
by the way i have similar looking laptop to the one you got is it hp dv8000
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its actually a dv5000 series... but i havent had a problem with the drives, they arent on very long anyways.
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