iOpener

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Mar 20 22:32:14 2000

I'm not certain I know which of the items on my list you're referring to ,
but I've learned that I have only five drives to deal with, so I'm not
worrying about making a board at this juncture. I've got to adapt from two
fairly standard connectors, i.e. 40-pin IDE and +12, 2x GND, +5, of which
the +12 isn't needed, to that 44-pin connector on the notebook drives.

The best arrangement I've seen is is a dual-row by 22 with short soldertails
sticking strainght out from the connector in such a way as to facilitate
soldering to a 2-sided PCB. That, at this point would work for me. I have
an adapter between the two connector types but that's just a mite too large
for my application, particularly since it restricts my ability to mount the
drive such that it's centered on the PCB, half protruding through the top of
the board and half through the bottom so as to avoid interference with the
adjacent cards.

So, John, did you find they were back-ordered on the ribbon cable? Since
I'm in no hurry, perhaps it doesn't make much difference. You're right
about the suitability of 50-conductor ribbon, though.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: iOpener


>On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:13:45PM -0700, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>> Do any of you fellows know of a ready/reasonable source of the
44-conductor
>> connectors and cables used with notebook drives? I believe the spacing
of
>> the connector pins is 2mm.
>
>Digikey sells it, but it seems they're backordered on the AMP brand for
>about a week, all they have is the 3M equivalent which costs 5x as much.
>I just changed my order to the 3M stuff and now I'm kicking myself because
>I forgot to ask whether they had the AMP version in 50 conductors, I'd be
>happy to unzip the last 6 conductors and save myself $30!!! Geez.
>
>John Wilson
>D Bit
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