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

[Mark Benson]

> 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.

Yeah thatbd make more sense, itbd need a Bridge chip :)

> 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.

I have had exactly this experience with SATA to IDE adapters. I bought cheap
ones and the soldering was utterly atrocious (dry joins on 2 IDE pins, 2 IDE
pins were also bridged on one adapter) and they didnbt work. I stumped up
for some better ones made by JMicron and they work like a charm.

Therebs always a bit of caveat emptor with cheapo Chinese stuff. If itbs
something simple like a relay board or a simple amplifier then resoldering it
is fine but with complicated stuff like that itbs a bear that I and
apparently yourself also donbt feel like wrestling.

Still, try searching around for Toshiba ZIF IDE adapters, therebs more than
one type around.

Further find:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264038837817
<https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264038837817>


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Mark