14 Aug
2019
14 Aug
'19
11:51 p.m.
I was under the impression that the internal hard drive on the 1537 is SCSI
and not IDE.
Careful, some of those pins have +12 power for the drive on them as well.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:49 PM Curt Vendel via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi,
I?m doing some work for a friend who has one of these unicorns it?s
apparently a super beefed up CIA use the laptop that wound up in Russia
somehow and he got it shipped back here to the US
The motherboard was modified it looks like the hard drive was on some kind
of a tray going to a connector which is IDE compatible
Someone had extremely poorly soldered on an IDE cable in place of the sled
and over the years several of the pans of popped off and they?re not really
making sense as to the solder points they?re supposed to go to.
Complicating the matter is the paint outs are not just a direct staggered
40 Pin to Pin connection several of the through holes are not in use so
just soldering on I had her and plug in the cable into it is not possible
also the pens are staggered so that wouldn?t make it possible either.
So to cut to the chase does anyone have the schematics or the motherboard
pinouts for this connector so that I can do a proper soldering job and put
on a clean working cable so that this laptop can vote from the IDE hard
drive?