31 Aug
1998
31 Aug
'98
3:08 a.m.
I'm looking for information on IBM's proprietary IDE format. I have a 44-pin
drive from a PS/2-30 (I have the CPU, too, but it has a 50Mb RLL on a card),
and a 2.5" laptop drive with *46* pins plus master/slave, not the usual 44.
I'm really trying to use the 2.5" drive (in a CD-32 w/SX-1 expansion, FWIW),
but it came in an IBM housing to snap into an IBM laptop, with an IBM cable...
Pinouts, pin swabbers, etc. all welcome.
Thanks,
-ethan
Watch out the PS/2 30 may be ESDI not IDE.
The IBM drive just unscrews from the platic housing and it's just a 2 1/2 inch
IDE drive with the power on the additional pins. The standard $5.00
2 1/2 IDE to regular IDE should work, I think...
I've got one and it seemed to be a standard IDE laptop drive (340mb).
Bill