IDE pin assignments

[madmike]

I need to attach a 2.5 inch hard drive from a deceased Toshiba Sattelite 4030 CDS notebook, to my PC via the standard 40 pin IDE cable,(to recover data), does anyone know of a site where I can get the pin by pin assignments of both drives,so I can make up a patch lead?.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks all.

[Bleeding Edge]

Your best bet is to contact the manufacturer of the drive and have them fax you the pin assignments. Or, check their website for the drive's spec sheet.

Don't the 2.5" notebook drives have the 44pin layout? I'm not sure what the other 4 pins are for. You don't want to be wasting time guessing so...

[Axel]

I'd be less concerned about the cable than I would be for the driver for that disk - even if you get the correct cable in place, without a good driver for that disk - you ain't getting very far pulling data off it. Old notebook hardware drivers are more difficult to come by than old cables ever will be. I'd say, unless you had the driver in hand, the data's a door stop. Sorry.

[800XL]

Somewhere I've got an adapter I picked up to do that. A good place to look for one would be www.hitechcafe.com (http://www.hitechcafe.com) , but I'm not sure that they will have it. The beast does exist though.

From what I recall, the pinout is largely the same, with some pins pulled for power, and master/slave settings are also found on the connector. I'd think the adapter is a simpler and more failsafe way to go about it though. If the data is that important, a mass of wires built by hand does not sound that appealing to me.

[drizzle]

madmike:

You can actually get an adapter to connect laptop hard drives to standard IDE cables. I work on Compaq, HP & Toshiba and this device has saved me many a times. I'm not sure where you can get them from however. And no, I have NEVER needed a device driver for the drive. Once it's connected the system picks it up and you can go from there.

drizzle