wanted a serial ATA to 40 pin ide adaptor
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:38 am
anyone point me to a adaptor to turn a serial ATA laptop 2.5 inch drive into a 40 pin ide drive so i can fit it into my A31P Thanks
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:44 am
These are all over eBay for next to nothing. I just bought 3 of them for less than $10 shipped, in the USA. Since you are in New Zealand it might be a bit more, but there are some that will ship internationally, unless you can find one on eBay on your side of the water.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:54 am
Can you send me a link to one of these? I didn't know anyone had come up w/ one that could squeeze into a drive bay w/ the drive. The only ones I've seen are the external adapters.tfflivemb2 wrote:These are all over eBay for next to nothing. I just bought 3 of them for less than $10 shipped, in the USA. Since you are in New Zealand it might be a bit more, but there are some that will ship internationally, unless you can find one on eBay on your side of the water.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:14 pm
me too a link would be great or better still can you sell me one of the 3 you bought 
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:16 pm
My mistake...I misread the question. I thought that you were looking for the connector to connect a laptop hard drive into a PC via the IDE cable.I really need to read more slowly.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:37 pm
bummer 
Re: wanted a serial ATA to 40 pin ide adaptor
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:21 am
Ki ora sakkara!sakkara wrote:anyone point me to a adaptor to turn a serial ATA laptop 2.5 inch drive into a 40 pin ide drive so i can fit it into my A31P Thanks
Perhaps this..... http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/p ... boards.htm
Or this one in Oz.... http://www.megapc.com.au/product_detail ... _indx=5934
Cheers,
Bill
Re: wanted a serial ATA to 40 pin ide adaptor
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:06 am
But with either of those, you can't FIT the HD + Adapter into the HD bay on an A31p (or any TP for that matter).bill bolton wrote:Ki ora sakkara!sakkara wrote:anyone point me to a adaptor to turn a serial ATA laptop 2.5 inch drive into a 40 pin ide drive so i can fit it into my A31P Thanks
Perhaps this..... http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/p ... boards.htm
Or this one in Oz.... http://www.megapc.com.au/product_detail ... _indx=5934
Cheers,
Bill
It think this is a product we all WISH would exist, but the size constraints of the HD bay just make it a practical impossibility.