Stijn Bagin wrote:
Hi, I'm responding to this old thread about the
Sanyo LaT-200a because I
have here a Running Sanyo SAT-250A /X286. This board is located inside a
Sanyo LT17 Laptop (or something that once was) and is running perfectl
with an AMD 80286, 640k conv and 384k upper.
If anyone still reads this and might be interested or just want's more
information, you can contact me at stijnbagin at
hotmail.com
Only trouble is that it has some sort of 50-pins connection harddrive
setup (i have been thinking SCSI) directly on the mainboard from which
I can make heads nor tails.
I want to hook up a standard 40 pins IDE drive, but I'm not sure how to
proceed without a datasheet on the specific connector... The Bios knows
all 47 standard HD layouts and a 3,5 inch floppy drive is already in
place... I also succeeded to remove the old monochrome LCD display and
the huge controllercard and replace it with a smooth standard ISA 16-bit
full color Headland Technology's Video 7 board. The only thing remaining
is this Harddrive problem... who helps... ?
I must also mention that standard the 50 pins connector was relayed onto
a "SMS"<brand> controllercard which converted the 50 pins into a
managable
26 pins connector on which i can find even less information... The 3,5
inch harddrive took it's juice and information all from these 26 pins
(the brand on this harddrive is also unknown on the net).... I'm hoping
this controllercard is unimportant and that the 50 pins are the ones to
proceed with...
Greetz
Hmmm, interesting sounding rig you got there. Are you sure it's a 50
pin connector for the HDD? Also, is it really a "full size" 3.5" hard
drive and not a 2.5" laptop drive?
IIRC, all laptop HDDs use a 44-pin connector for the IDE. 4 for power,
and the other 40 for the data. You can easily get the appropriate
adaptors to hook a laptop HDD onto a regular "full size" IDE connection.
I've got one in my toolkit for data rescue purposes. Don't know if you
could go the other way, though. The laptop might not crank out enough
juice for the bigger drive.
Wait a minute, just had a thought. Is there a separate connector for
power to the HDD? If so, that 50 pin connector could be SCSI, couldn't it?
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