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>That full height SCSI drive (ST-43400N) I mentioned draws up to 3.98
>amps at 12 V while starting, 1.9 amps once it has spunup. It also uses
>3.4/1.2 amps at 5 V. That's 28-33 watts once running. (Numbers are
>from Seagate's website.) But it could require 65 watts at spinup!
>Good thing I have a 300 watt power supply in my external SCSI box,
>since I have four of these drives. (That tape drive has been moved.)

    Be carefull here, the 300 watt rating on your supply is input wattage,
assuming a 100% efficient power supply you would get 300watts output, but I
have never seen that. I recommend you don't use wattage, and add up the amps
on everything and see if you excede what is said on the supply. TTYL

Herbert Graf