In message <4405E0B28BB5D111B596006097B1A22F44E221@COMMUNICATIONS>, Tony Hernan
dez writes:
>I'm looking for cables to connect a laptop hard drive to the IDE controller
>inside my multia as well as a power source of some kind for it ? or do I
>even need one with the lappy hard drive ?

What you need is a special connector which has a 44-pin port on one end,
and a 40-pin EIDE connector and a power cable on the other.  It's basically
a small, very simple, circuit board; I've seen 'em for around $7 at Fry's.

-s