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  • stevo1210
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2006
    • 4156
    • Australia
    #1

    IDE adapters

    I have one of these 2.5" --> 3.5" IDE adaptors to make a notebook hard drive compatible with a desktop PC. Only problem is that I don't know which way it goes into the laptop drive. It fits both ways so I am wary about this and I don't want to burn my laptop hard drive either. I can see that on the adaptor there is an indication of "pin 1", but I don't exactly know where pin 1 is on a laptop hard drve. So to make things easy, looking from a bove the drive (from the top where the labels are on the drive), which side is pin 1? left or right?

    My IDE adaptor is similar to this one: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/IDE-2-5-in-to...QQcmdZViewItem

    Thanks.
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    • 370forlife
      Large Marge
      • Aug 2008
      • 3112
      • United States
      #2
      Re: IDE adapters

      My experience with hard drives is that if a cable is plugged in backwards, it will just not detect it or throw a error. Also, i believe pin 1 is always the top, left hand side, but don't take that as fact, i don't usually work with laptop hard drives.

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        • linuxguru
          Badcaps Legend
          • Apr 2005
          • 1564
          #3
          Re: IDE adapters

          Heads up: If you plug in the 50-pin cable reversed into a 2.5" IDE drive, it will usually release its magic smoke. The reason is that the connector also carries power (+5v) since there is no separate power connector. The power pins, if reversed, map onto something that trigger the smoke release (I forgot exactly what - maybe GND, maybe signal pins). Whatever it is, don't try reversing the cable. Pin 1 is on the side which has the configuration jumpers/pins (4-8 pins that are separated from the remaining 50).

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            • Wizard
              Badcaps Legend
              • Mar 2008
              • 2296
              #4
              Re: IDE adapters

              Not just that, there are ground pins in wrong places and swapping connector adapter on HD around or the cable too shorts out the chipset and goes the useful die in them. Poof.

              Take a clear pic of your adapter both sides and we can find it.

              Cheers, Wizard

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                • willawake
                  Super Modulator
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 8457
                  • Greece
                  #5
                  Re: IDE adapters

                  hmm there should be one pin missing no?
                  i will check tomorrow at the office
                  capacitor lab yachtmati techmati

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                    • Scenic
                      o.O
                      • Sep 2007
                      • 2642
                      • Germany
                      #6
                      Re: IDE adapters

                      pin 1 is always the one next to those 4 master/slave jumper pins



                      dont mind those slightly bent pins.. i used one of those 2.5" HDD adapters waay too often on this HDD
                      Last edited by Scenic; 10-05-2008, 05:14 PM.

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                        • Gendo Ikari
                          Senior Member
                          • Jun 2008
                          • 62
                          #7
                          Re: IDE adapters

                          I need to get one of those to work on my notebook drive.
                          So, who makes a good adapter?

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                            • dood
                              Deputy dood
                              • Mar 2004
                              • 2462
                              • USA
                              #8
                              Re: IDE adapters

                              Originally posted by Gendo Ikari
                              I need to get one of those to work on my notebook drive.
                              So, who makes a good adapter?
                              Any old cheap thing will do. I usually get mine from Cyberguys for a couple bucks. I get a few, because I have a tendency to lose them somehow. There's nothing to them, so I've never seen a crappy one!
                              Ludicrous gibs!

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