What's wrong with this picture?

Post by **}TCP{Wolf** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:54 pm

I bought 2 S-ATA / E-IDE controllers over eBay. They do function but were constructed wrongly.

not seeing anything wrong? okay... I will give you a closer hint....

The first person to answer precisely and correctly what is wrong with it before I post the correct answer will win a 20 MB used Hitachi laptop harddrive that gets a little hot (and would thus be thrown away by me but the drive works

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cleopatra · Post by **cleopatra** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:25 pm

}TCP{Ghost · Post by **}TCP{Ghost** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:58 am

the pins look fucked..

partydevil · Post by **partydevil** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:00 am

Kobra · Post by **Kobra** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:21 am

ah i dont know but i will just guess :O
that big thing on the top, i dont think its needed :O

Post by **}TCP{Carnage** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:26 am

Pff that's easy ...

the board should be yellow

}TCP{Skarijscout · Post by **}TCP{Skarijscout** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:07 am

lol - it's really easy!
The board have 'eSATA' Ports.
You must plug in your internal HD to the external plugs and this looks funny. And i don't know really if that works.

Much luck - ya case modder.

Marwin · Post by **Marwin** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:53 am

Its not an E-IDE Controller its an normal IDE. On E-IDE is the ping Number 20 removed. You have to take the old 40 pin cable with less data rate :-/. On E-IDE you can take the 80 pin cable with higer one.

I hope you dont need the IDE adapter on this boards.................

Marwin

}TCP{Cee · Post by **}TCP{Cee** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:30 am

I can see the NerdHerd is already at work, so I'll just state that the wrong thing is, that you consider buying such things off ebay and not in a normal store :p

}TCP{Coco · Post by **}TCP{Coco** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:10 am

Hi!

If I'm not blind, I can see two external and one internal SATA port, so this shouldn't be the problem. But the IDE port is mounted on top of the card, which will make it a little hard to plug in a cable while there are other cards around it.

Maybe, Marwin is right with what he says about the amount of pins. I don't really know it from scratch as I rarely plug in and out any harddrives.

Coco.

Post by **}TCP{Wolf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:35 pm

Marwin wins the laptop harddrive. Private message me your address and it's yours.

If you remove the pin the controller still works btw, and yes in UDMA mode.

As for the internal vs external S-ATA ports I wanted external ports. But those controllers actually have a 2nd construction flaw (not visible on the pictures). The slot metal is slightly misaligned, so that you cannot plug an S-ATA cable all the way. As a result, the 2 external ports do not work. One hole is larger than the other, so by realigning the metal you can get one port to work, but the 2nd is a lost cause.

For testing I mounted one controller without the external metal casing and tested if the ports at least did work... of course they didn't

I basically have a total of 3 IDE/S-ATA controllers, and on each something else is broke.... great

partydevil · Post by **partydevil** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:08 pm

how you guys know these things? =o

}TCP{Coco · Post by **}TCP{Coco** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:22 pm

Hi!

}TCP{Wolf wrote:I basically have a total of 3 IDE/S-ATA controllers, and on each something else is broke.... great

Unbelievable, really!

Coco.

Kobra · Post by **Kobra** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:41 pm

ah damn you marwin

Post by **}TCP{Wolf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:02 pm

If Marvin doesn't want it you can have it Kob lol

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