8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
11:41 p.m.
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:19:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Richard Schauer <rws at ripco.com>
Subject: Re: Toshiba 3100/20
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Martin.Stransky at emerson.com wrote:
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Sorry, can't help but that's interesting...
I'd always thought that the 3100/20 used that 26-pin interface, but maybe
there's more than one version; I've got a 3100/40 which uses a normal IDE
interface.
On the other hand, I have a 3200 which does use the 26-pin version while
someone on another forum says that his has a normal ST-506 ST-125.
And now you come along with a 44-pin connector... Is there a separate power
connector?
I had heard that the 3100/20 had a non-standard implementation of the ST-506
(MFM) interface; perhaps that's the 44-pin version, and the 26-pin version
is an early IDE interface.
They are neat computers, but assuming it's still working I'd get that data
off ASAP, using the serial port or diskettes...
Anybody else out there that can shed some light?
mike
I need to read data from my friend's old
Toshiba PC with HDD 26 pin
connector. I would need to know what are the signals, or what is the
adapter.
Even though I know that this guy probably isn't a classiccmp member, just
replying to some message he found from who knows when, I'll echo his
question. I have one of these too, and they seem to have trouble with the
power supplies in them (not the external brick, the internal one). It's
at least partly related to the fishy SMT capacitor problem; I've replaced
all of them in mine.
I have some data stored on the hard drive that I'd like to get; of course
it's a neat computer too, that I'd like to have running (there's a reason
the data is on the drive!) The connector isn't 26 pins as he says,
though, it's 44 pins. There's a common fine-pitch connector used on
laptop IDE drives that's 44 pins- this isn't it. It's just like the 2x20
.100 spacing 40-pin IDE connector, but 2x22. The drive is a JVC with a
model number I don't have in front of me, that doesn't seem to be used
much of anywhere else. Googling it comes up with a couple of people
wanting to sell me one, but nothing else.
Any ideas? It'd be nice if the connector was just IDE with power tacked
on one end.
Thanks,
Richard Schauer
KF9VP