1.8 inch palm unit USB cable needed

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Patience! Here is a first-time visitor to a.c.hdwe

I owned an iRiver product that burned up long after warranty,
but the internal 1.8 inch Toshiba MK2004GAL HD is working fine.
Am looking for a USB cable to fit the 50-pin female socket on
this HD in order to use it as a normal external USB HD. Any
suggestions where to find such cable .. or at least a source
of the corresponding 50-pin male socket with identification
of the needed pins to make my own?

Thanks.
 
I'm afraid what you want to do isn't possible - there's a lot of
electronics between the hard drive and the USB socket. You might be
able to find an adapter that would let the microdrive be connected as a
conventional IDE hard drive or perhaps you can find an IDE <--> USB
converter and an appropriate set of plugs/sockets.
 
There are adapters for 2.5" drives readily available,
perhaps you could adapt to one of them, but you would also have to
provide power conversion circuitry to supply the 3.3 volts needed by the
1.8" drive vs. 5volts for the 2.5s.
 
On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:05:22 GMT, Chief Suspect <chief
Patience! Here is a first-time visitor to a.c.hdwe

I owned an iRiver product that burned up long after warranty,
but the internal 1.8 inch Toshiba MK2004GAL HD is working fine.
Am looking for a USB cable to fit the 50-pin female socket on
this HD in order to use it as a normal external USB HD. Any
suggestions where to find such cable .. or at least a source
of the corresponding 50-pin male socket with identification
of the needed pins to make my own?

Thanks.
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Not having the drive in front of me I'm not certain but
believe it is a Compact Flash Type II compatible format.

If so, any typical hand-held or multi-in-1 card readers that
accept Type II CF should work. Again I"m not certain of it.
You might do this the other way 'round, see if the iRiver
was able to take a CF card instead of the HDD.
 
Not having the drive in front of me I'm not certain but
believe it is a Compact Flash Type II compatible format.

If so, any typical hand-held or multi-in-1 card readers that
accept Type II CF should work. Again I"m not certain of it.
You might do this the other way 'round, see if the iRiver
was able to take a CF card instead of the HDD.
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I am astounded at the simplicity of your suggested answer !!

Of course this will be the first thing I try tomorrow.
There is only the minor annoyance of the extra width of
the tiny drive not fitting into the throat of the
typical CD Flash Card socket, but we'll get around
that somehow. Thanks
 
.... typical CD Flash Card socket ..

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Ooooops, sorry! I meant CF Flash Card Socket
 
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:03:21 GMT, Chief Suspect <chief
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I am astounded at the simplicity of your suggested answer !!

Of course this will be the first thing I try tomorrow.
There is only the minor annoyance of the extra width of
the tiny drive not fitting into the throat of the
typical CD Flash Card socket, but we'll get around
that somehow. Thanks
Click to expand...

There must be specs out there for those drives, compare them
to the CF pinout... is what I'd do before plugging it in
since you mention it's not the same width.
 
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