[rescue] Help finding flat cable to slimline IDE adapter
Aaron Finley
nerp at atfinley.com
Mon Mar 10 21:24:57 CDT 2008
Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Aaron Finley wrote:
> You either want this:
>
> http://www.logicsupply.com/products/slimcdide40
>
> or this:
>
> http://www.logicsupply.com/products/slimcdide44
>
Neither actually. The ribbon the server has is about an inch and a
quarter wide, with a bare end. It is similar to the connector that
server slimline floppies use. There is an adapter out there that
converts this into the high density connector that laptop CDs use.
I have held one in my hand that I pulled from nearly every Proliant
rackmount server I have disassembled. I cannot find the part now; and
every search I try fails.
It would look something like this:
http://www.suyin.com/webpic/picture/pic/CD-ROM.jpg
The CD-rom connector looks like this:
http://benryves.com/images/toshiba/cdrom_connector.jpg
And an example of a ribbon (not the right pic of course, but it's no
standard-width 40pin IDE cable):
http://members.cox.net/tj53/ribbon%20wire.jpg
-- Aaron
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