40 pins IDE HDD on a 20 pin IDE connector

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GLORIOUSPCMASTER

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What about a seperator? Like a 40 pin seperated into 2 20 pins? Ive seen one on a site


 
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USAFRet

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Pretty sure we'd need pictures of what you are trying to do.

But no. It doesn't work like that.
 
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Spectre694

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Ya I doubt that was IDE. I'm betting that what you actually have is an ST-506 cable.
 
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GLORIOUSPCMASTER

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Ya it goes from a 20 pin IDE on a drive manager card on the motherboard to a ESDI but I though i could maybe use the IDE alone

 
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Spectre694

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If it is what I think it is that won't work. They don't use the same protocols at all. ST-506 actually uses a separate cable to the drive and that 20 pin to transfer data.
 
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My friend gave me the computer and said all he did was take the hard drive which i believe is the IBM X908530. That HDD uses EDSI, but the drive manager expansion card on the board has pins like IDE. The only cable that came stock for the HDD is 20 pin IDE to the EDSI. The card has 4 pin configurations named, Drive 0 (20 pins), Drive 1 (20), Winchester (34) and floppy (34)
 
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Spectre694

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Oh it is EDSI apparently I missed when you said that earlier still isn't compatible with IDE though. I guess the cables do look pretty similar though.
 
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