is there a way to power an IDE floppy drive to run from a battery?

[marina_1234]

Oddball question here - is there a way to run/power an IDE floppy drive (3 1/2" one) from a battery of some sort? I ask because...

I am working on an old IBM Model 30 - XT. I am in the process of building a XT to IDE adapter card that will let me run a compact flash card as the hard drive (because the old hard drive died and I don't have high hopes of a replacement working for long)... Yes, it does exist - it's a new technology... Anyway..

Also have a problem with the floppy drive... i am sure it's the drive. I was wanting to replace the floppy drive (8 bit, ISA) with a modern one, it should work, problem is there's nowhere to plug it in for power!

The XT power supply has only the one connection for the motherboard (well ok, two connections lol)... Which leaves nothing for anything else. That is if the power supply could handle it, which I think it may not.

So... again, my question, and please consider it carefully - is there a way to wire an internal, IDE floppy drive to run from a battery? I mean, for a long time too - not just a few days.

Thoughts?

 

[terry4536]

There are add-on cards to do what you ask. I believe there are even cable adapters to do that.

Here are some ideas.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=FLOPPY+DRIVE+POWER&N=-1&isNodeId=1

 

[terry4536]

Here is a floppy / molex power connector.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6J32GE2879&cm_re=FLOPPY_DRIVE_POWER-_-9SIA6J32GE2879-_-Product