Re: help with laptop to desktop hard drive adapter

I've never even seen a pata cable that doesn't have the middle pin filled
in.

True.

There are 21 pins on the top row and 22 pins on the bottom row.

The IDE adaptor on the cable side should have 39 pins, pin
#20 is missing to allow correct alignment of the "80 pin" pata
cable.

The female connector which connects to your 2.5" drive has
44 pin holes - the 4 extra are use for power. I think most
adaptors do not plug #20, although I think the drives are
missing #20 - so make sure you place that on the drive
oriented correctly pin#1-pin#1. Also most drives have 44 +
4 pins - Don't use those 4 extras !!!!

On the adapter there are 20 pins on each row, and if you are looking at
the pins straight on, then there are 2 wires red and black on the right
side (red wire is top row, black wire is bottom row).

The red wire is +5V, the black is ground. If there are a full
40 pins, I'd buy another adaptor - I think they're $6 at BestBuy.

I don't want to pull the pin on the top row but is a PATA cable that has
the all the pin holes?

If you're confident the adaptor is good other than having
pin #20 ... you could pull the plug out of the cable (a very
sharp jeweler's screw driver can pry it out - yes I done this
on more than one occasion but not in conjunction with a
2.5inch drive adaptor).

Ed




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