[Clug-tech] Supplying power to PCMCIA esata connected drive

[John Jardine]

Hi,

I need to upgrade the firmware on a couple of drives (remember those
dodgy Seagates?).  The drives are in a D-LINK NAS enclosure and Seagate
doesn't offer anyway to upgrade the firmware in that scenario ...
basically it has to be upgraded in a windows box.

The only windows machine I have is a laptop. I've purchased an E-Sata
PCMCIA card.  That doesn't supply drive power though.  I think I'm going
to have to Frankenstein power out of a desktop while connecting the
drive to my laptop ... but I really don't like the idea.

Anyone got any better ideas?

Thanks,
J.J.