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

[JP Hindin]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Mark Benson wrote:
>> 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

> 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.

I apologise, my memory has conflated several items together - I've been 
doing a lot of disk imaging lately and one of them was a 44 pin IDE to 
SATA adaptor which must've had the uC on it.

The item you linked to is _exactly_ what I purchased that's doing 
something ugly to my IDE bus. We're on the same page :)

It occurs to me it might just have been assembled badly and there's some 
bridged traces/pins somewhere, I was unimpressed with the build quality - 
but given what it cost I wasn't expecting much.

I'd consider trying to build something myself but I'm far too ham-handed 
to solder anything so finely pitched as the microribbon connector.

Maybe it's just that easy? I bought crap and.. it was crap. But I wanted 
to ask in case anyone had experience and went "No, those things are 
terrible, you want _one of these_...". And, possibly, on the off-chance 
anyone knew Mediants, or similar cPCI telco crates, intimately and could 
tell me how easy it is too and how dumb I'm being.

My thanks, regardless, I do appreciate you making the effort to look on my 
behalf;

  - JP