>Powering a quantum (or possibly any) hard drive off your disk >port can be
>detrimental to a stock power supply. After a few months mine
>refused to give the drive enough power to start up.
> Now i have a heavy duty supply and i could actually use the old
>supply to run the drive if i could find the right connector for the
>drive.
True, powering a hard drive off the floppy port can run down the power supply, but that is _not_ the normal method of powering hard drives. Most have their own power supplies. I've seen a number of anti-recommendations for the floppy port-powered hard drives.