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What's wrong with this picture?
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:54 pm
by }TCP{Wolf
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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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:25 pm
by cleopatra
lol
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:58 am
by }TCP{Ghost
the pins look fucked..
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:00 am
by partydevil
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:21 am
by Kobra
ah i dont know but i will just guess :O
that big thing on the top, i dont think its needed :O
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:26 am
by }TCP{Carnage
Pff that's easy ...
the board should be yellow
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:07 am
by }TCP{Skarijscout
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:53 am
by Marwin
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
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:30 am
by }TCP{Cee
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
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:10 am
by }TCP{Coco
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:35 pm
by }TCP{Wolf
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
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:08 pm
by partydevil
how you guys know these things? =o
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:22 pm
by }TCP{Coco
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:41 pm
by Kobra
ah damn you marwin
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:02 pm
by }TCP{Wolf
If Marvin doesn't want it you can have it Kob lol
