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I bought these on ebay and tried connecting them to my hitachi 20 gb ide drive and it doesn't fit. Did I buy the wrong ones? This seems like it should work right. the two ends have the same amount of holes. Can someone please help me? thanks

this is the link to the auciton.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=003

themechanizer wrote:I bought these on ebay and tried connecting them to my hitachi 20 gb ide drive and it doesn't fit. Did I buy the wrong ones? This seems like it should work right. the two ends have the same amount of holes. Can someone please help me? thanks

this is the link to the auciton.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=003

the smaller side doesnt have 44 pins? it has 40 like the normal harddrive side?

Sounds like they sent the wrong item. I assume you are trying to connect a 44 pin 2.5" ide drive and a 3.5" ide drive?

What are you trying to connect it to?

I have a 20 gnd a 60gb ide laptop drives to install in the e5000 ultra so I can have sounds in it. I need it immediately. SO I would have to order the right adapter from ebay.


hope someone can point me in the right direction.
thanks for the help

Its a 20 gb hitachi travelstar 2.5 ide laptop drive. It appears that the ends should work but its doesn't. the other hard drive 60 gb had different ends then the 20gb. I thought all 2.5 drives would have the same endings/ pins.

maybe its the drive and not the adapter.

anyone got any ideas.
thanks

have you previously tested the drives and ascertained whether or not they work before you tried to put them in the ultra?
As you say it might be the drive.

Is the connector on the hard drive for the laptop connector not keyed? I dont have one in front of me right now so I cant remember off the top of the head. Refer to the instructions for the adaptor as to which is which, as it will only work one way round.

Does the drive fit under the start up power specs of the ultra? have you got the correct cable wired for the power? the positions of the 5v line and the 12v line on the ultra motherboard are reversed compared to normal molex connections.

What do you know and what have you tried so far?

As far as I am aware, all 2.5 drives do have 44 pin connectors, if they are IDE ATA drives.
I don't think you will be able to use two drives on the IDE bus in the Ultra, I think in order to have two drives you have to use a scsi to ide adaptor and use the scsi port as well. (although I'm not sure)

Again it might be the drives are just too new an ATA spec to work with the Ultra.