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: 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