What is this connector thing - I know its not IDE

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#1 BrainDrain

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Posted 01 April 2007 - 11:31 PM

I'm looking at a retro laptop for a friend, I've just opened the case, and this harddrive is not a normal 2.5" ide... its like twice the height, and has a longer IO port with more pins... In the photo its still got the laptops hdd holder on though, its basically a normal 2.5" drive but twice as high, and with a longer port, does anyone know what it is?

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Posted 01 April 2007 - 11:43 PM

44 pin IDC? That's a standard 2.5" IDE plug.

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Posted 01 April 2007 - 11:51 PM

That's it beside my 2.5"->3.5" adapter o.O

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Posted 02 April 2007 - 12:08 AM

Looks like a 44 pin IDC but with a 0.1" pitch. Still can't see it be anything else than IDE. SCSI doesn't use 44 pins (rather 50, 68 or 80), and even the older "retro" stuff (ESDI/ST-506) doesn't use 44 pins either. Just how old is this thing anyways?