[geeks] Talking to 1.8" ZIF UATA SanDisk SSD, or not

[Mark Benson]

Hi,

> One of the SCs I have has a 1.8" IDE disk, a SanDisk UATA 5000, which has a
"ZIF" interface. Unfortunately I'm not quite sure how to talk to this type of
disk. My understanding is that it's strictly an IDE interface with a little
bit of pin swapping and power combined on the microribbon, but the adapters
I've found all seem to have a microcontroller on them - I did purchase one of
the most common style but whenever the disk is plugged into it the adapter
decides to eat my IDE bus (no disks on either bus will show up all of a
sudden). I'd assume I had something upside down but all of the
cables/connectors are keyed, and the ribbon only has contacts on one side. And
master/slave/CS doesn't seem to be appropriate when on the 2nd bus, disks on
the 1st bus won't show up, which is not IDE behaviour I recall running into
before.

This adapter looks a lot more bdirectb, all I can see on it are a vouple
of rectifiers or similar and a cap.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162858473482
<https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162858473482>

This (or at least something like it) is a common interface in iPods, between
Toshiba 1.8b disks and the player.

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Mark