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From: mm on 21 Nov 2006 17:02 A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and that the WD website indicates that it uses. Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1 to S7 and another with P1 to P15. !! Do they sell cables or adapter so that I can use this drive? Why is this conector different from all other connectors? (It still has the 4-wire power connector and 4 places for jumpers, SSC, PW2, OPT1, and OPT2.) If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: Andy on 21 Nov 2006 20:23 It's an SATA drive. On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:02:42 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote: >A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. > >It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin >connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and >that the WD website indicates that it uses. > >Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1 >to S7 and another with P1 to P15. !! > >Do they sell cables or adapter so that I can use this drive? > >Why is this conector different from all other connectors? > >(It still has the 4-wire power connector and 4 places for jumpers, >SSC, PW2, OPT1, and OPT2.) > > > >If you are inclined to email me >for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: Folkert Rienstra on 21 Nov 2006 17:24 Rotflol. "mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:0bs6m259sqdl79al2bch23a6pcducbpasc(a)4ax.com > A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. > > It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin > connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and > that the WD website indicates that it uses. > > Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1 > to S7 and another with P1 to P15. !! > > Do they sell cables or adapter so that I can use this drive? > > Why is this conector different from all other connectors? > > (It still has the 4-wire power connector and 4 places for jumpers, > SSC, PW2, OPT1, and OPT2.) > > > > If you are inclined to email me > for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: mm on 22 Nov 2006 13:17 On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:23:27 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote: >It's an SATA drive. Thanks. It's interesting that I managed to go to the WD800 on the WD webpage for it that google pointed to , and not see anything about SATA drives. But they do have a page that explains the difference. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/resources/DriveCompatibilityguide.asp Since I am using win98SE, I can't use this yet. Maybe in a year or so I'll assemble a win2000 box. The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be good. :) >On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:02:42 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> >wrote: > >>A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. >> >>It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin >>connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and >>that the WD website indicates that it uses. >> >>Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1 >>to S7 and another with P1 to P15. !! >> >>Do they sell cables or adapter so that I can use this drive? >> >>Why is this conector different from all other connectors? >> >>(It still has the 4-wire power connector and 4 places for jumpers, >>SSC, PW2, OPT1, and OPT2.) >> >> >> >>If you are inclined to email me >>for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-) If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: Peter on 22 Nov 2006 14:51 > Thanks. It's interesting that I managed to go to the WD800 on the WD > webpage for it that google pointed to , and not see anything about > SATA drives. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1327&p_created=1109874364
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