halls_well wrote on 2020-03-03, 05:00:
Does the laptop BIOS see the drive at all?
No. And yes. When I turn it on, it sees something, but it says that it's an invalid hard drive. Whether that means it knows it's a hard drive or not I cannot say. It probable that it detects something connected but doesn't know that it's a hard drive, just that it's sensing something at the end of the HDD connector. When you enter that actual bios, nothing shows up in the HDD portion.
Do you need to set a jumper correctly on the adapter?
No clue. There's a Master Slave jumper that I tried changing and it did nothing.
Does the adapter indicate it has power?
I don't know because it's inside the HDD caddie. It should be getting power. The pins are correct and the regular HDD is getting power on the correct pins. Also, this adapter/CF combo works totally fine in my regular PC attached to an IDE header, so it's getting power in that way.