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First post, by tanasen

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Got this drive from an Archos PMA. Is there a converter in order to make this drive usable? It is a HITACHI 30 GB 4200 RPM IDE PATA 1.8" (HTC426030G7AT00). Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 10, by Jo22

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Hi, is that 44pin IDE ? Sorry, it's been a while since I was holding such drives in my hands. 😅
If so, 44pin to 40pin IDE adapters are quite common.

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Reply 2 of 10, by tanasen

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No, these appear to be 47 pins! They are also in a smaller form factor than normal IDE. I'm looking for adapters on ebay but can't find anything compatible.

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Reply 3 of 10, by konc

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What 47? This appears to be a normal 44 pin connector. The additional 4 pins on the left of your photo are the jumpers.
I'm not sure about the size of the connector though, but I think both 1.8 and 2.5" drives had the same (someone correct me or confirm this)

Reply 4 of 10, by PARKE

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This is one adapter solution, I don't know if there are others.

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PS This also seems to be what you want:
http://tinyurl.com/y3lc9pcv

Reply 5 of 10, by tanasen

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I found this Female 44pin to 40pin Converter Card. Would this work?
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PC3😜 MMX 200MHz, SY-5EAS5, 128MB SDRAM, Diamond Monster 3D, Diamond Viper V330, ESS 1868F

Reply 6 of 10, by PARKE

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Looks the same as in the ebay link I posted. If you get one like this, be careful how you connect the hd re orientation because position 20 is seemingly not blocked in this version.

Reply 7 of 10, by tanasen

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Yeah, I didn't notice the link. Ok I'll inform you if this works. Thanks!

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Reply 8 of 10, by PARKE

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If it works do not expect too much of its usability, those 4200 rpm disks are slow enough to border on being annoying.

Reply 9 of 10, by BinaryDemon

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Edit - Damn basically said same thing as post above me.

Not sure your intentions for the drive, but I think some of these 1.8” hard drives only spin at 4200 rpm making them painfully slow as a host drive for modern operating systems. I’d guess DOS/Win3.1 or Win95 might be ok, but beyond that I bet you notice the I/O delay.

Reply 10 of 10, by tanasen

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Yes this drive spins at 4200rpm, but I don't mind. I'm only going to use it as a test-bench drive in order to do some benchmarks in win98se.

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PC3😜 MMX 200MHz, SY-5EAS5, 128MB SDRAM, Diamond Monster 3D, Diamond Viper V330, ESS 1868F