On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Martin.Stransky at
emerson.com wrote:
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