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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What Cable Do I Need?
- Message-ID: <37183@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:41:34 GMT
- References: <13608@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <13608@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
- > I've just ordered a Maxtor 85Mb 2.5" IDE drive for my A1200, unfortunately
- > the supplier was unable to supply a cable to go with it: so does anyone know
- > if there is anything special I need, or is if just a straight IDE cable?
- >
- > The manual says that the A1200 IDE controller interface is a 40 pin AT-BUS,
- > but I took the cover off the A1200 and counted 44 pins (22 pins in line), so
- > is this 40 pins plus Power or what?
-
- The 2.5 inch drives use a different cable/connector than the 3.5 inch drives.
- The connector has 44-pins, of which the first 40 are the same as the the 3.5
- inch drives and the others are for power (no separate power cable). This
- cable uses connectors with a 2mm pin spacing instead of the .1 inch spacing
- used on the 3.5 inch drives.
-
- > Any suggestions appreciated, mail me direct, and when I get it sorted I'll
- > forward the final result for anyone else with the same situation...
-
- Hope you can find something. At first we though we would have to make a up
- custom flex-circuit, but it turned out that some japanese vendors were making
- comaptible ribbon cable and connectors.
-
- One of the advantages of getting a drive expansion kit is that it includes
- such little details, while the cut-rate drive vendors don't have to bother...
-
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