Conner CP2121 hard drive

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My old Compaq Contura keyboard has failed and I want to recover some
of the data on the hard drive. I thought that sticking the hard drive in
one of these external hard drive enclosures would do the job but the hard
drive has more pins than the receptacle accepts. What other options are
there? (that won't cost an arm and a leg).
 
johnny said:
My old Compaq Contura keyboard has failed and I want to recover
some of the data on the hard drive. I thought that sticking the hard
drive in one of these external hard drive enclosures would do the
job but the hard drive has more pins than the receptacle accepts.
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Thats because its a laptop drive. You need
an external drive that takes 2.5" laptop drives.
What other options are there? (that won't cost an arm and a leg).
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You can either get an external drive enclosure that takes
laptop drives or an adapter that allows 2.5" laptop drives
to be plugged into wherever a 3.5" drive goes, either that
external drive enclosure or internally to your current PC.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD
 
Rod Speed said:
johnny <[email protected]> wrot
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Thats because its a laptop drive. You need
an external drive that takes 2.5" laptop drives.
Click to expand...
You can either get an external drive enclosure that takes
laptop drives or an adapter that allows 2.5" laptop drives
to be plugged into wherever a 3.5" drive goes, either that
external drive enclosure or internally to your current PC.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD
Click to expand...

Or an adapter cable like
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=USB2IDE-25-35&cat=HDD

Plenty on ebay too.
 
johnny said:
My old Compaq Contura keyboard has failed and I want to recover some
of the data on the hard drive. I thought that sticking the hard drive in
one of these external hard drive enclosures would do the job but the hard
drive has more pins than the receptacle accepts. What other options are
there? (that won't cost an arm and a leg).
Click to expand...
This is a 2.5" form factor. If so, you can buy a little adapter for
about $5. that will allow you to put it in either an external case or in
fact on your IDE cable on a normal machine. Be careful to follow the
pin markings as two pins carry voltage. It is NOT keyed and plugging it
in backwards will destroy the drive.
Regards.
Lee
 
Thats because its a laptop drive. You need an external drive that takes
2.5" laptop drives.


You can either get an external drive enclosure that takes laptop drives or
an adapter that allows 2.5" laptop drives to be plugged into wherever a
3.5" drive goes, either that external drive enclosure or internally to
your current PC. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD
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I bought a MadDog MegaVault enclosure (model MD-AEN250USB2) that claims to
accept any 2.5 inch notebook drive up to 100GB - more lies I guess.
 
johnny said:
Rod Speed wrote
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I bought a MadDog MegaVault enclosure (model MD-AEN250USB2) that
claims to accept any 2.5 inch notebook drive up to 100GB - more lies I guess.
Click to expand...

Unlikely with something as basic as that.

Its more likely that the extra pins are for the config jumpers and that
all you need to do is to put the connector in the MadDog MegaVault
enclosure onto the pins that were used in the Compaq Contura keyboard.

I cant fine a pinout for the CP2121 online with a
quick look, but its likely the same as the CP2124
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/cp2124.html
shows where pin 1 is.
 
Rod said:
Unlikely with something as basic as that.

Its more likely that the extra pins are for the config jumpers and that
all you need to do is to put the connector in the MadDog MegaVault
enclosure onto the pins that were used in the Compaq Contura keyboard.

I cant fine a pinout for the CP2121 online with a
quick look, but its likely the same as the CP2124
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/cp2124.html
shows where pin 1 is.
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Rod..... that drive is a 2.5" drive. Had a quick look and found Conner
information on old drives.

http://www.drivermuseum.com/files/utils/hd_u.html

I've got a database of all old drives from about 1999 back but I can't
find it right now.
Regards
Lee
 
Lee said:
Rod Speed wrote
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Rod..... that drive is a 2.5" drive.
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Yes, I said that.
Had a quick look and found Conner information on old drives.
http://www.drivermuseum.com/files/utils/hd_u.html
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Neither of the Conner links actually work.

Seagate has plenty of info on many of the Conner drives, they
bought Conner. Not that particular drive for some reason tho.
I've got a database of all old drives from about 1999 back but I can't find it
right now.
Click to expand...

TheRef doesnt list it either.
http://marina.mfarris.com/theref/hard_drives/mh_conner_peripherals.html

Its the correct number tho, plenty of hits with google,
mostly operations selling that drive as a spare.
 
I bought a MadDog MegaVault enclosure (model MD-AEN250USB2) that claims to
accept any 2.5 inch notebook drive up to 100GB - more lies I guess.
Click to expand...

Not exactly. Your drive is itty bitty, and OLD. Very Old. Connor drives
top out at a couple hundred megabytes. Your enclosure is probably
wanting a more modern drive.

THe model number you gave is an IDE, not SCSI, though connor did make
many scsi laptop drives. There is a second block of pins, for jumper
settings that do NOT need to be connected. If the enclosure has 1 hole
blocked out, so you can't insert a drive upside down, that may be your
connectivity issue. Older units didnt have that precaution. It's an
easy fix, though, after verifying that your drive is oriented
correctly, carefully count pins, to match up with the blocked one. Bend
the pin that corresponds to the blocked one downwards, 90 degrees.
Verify, verify verify first. Bending the wrong pin will make your life
difficult. It's possible to bend them back, but they're also very easy
to break.
 
Rod said:
Yes, I said that.


Neither of the Conner links actually work.

Seagate has plenty of info on many of the Conner drives, they
bought Conner. Not that particular drive for some reason tho.


TheRef doesnt list it either.
http://marina.mfarris.com/theref/hard_drives/mh_conner_peripherals.html

Its the correct number tho, plenty of hits with google,
mostly operations selling that drive as a spare.
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This is for what appears to be the same model drive, just smaller capacity:

http://www.4drives.com/DRIVESPECS/CONNER/541.txt

Regards
Lee
 
This is for what appears to be the same model drive, just smaller capacity:
http://www.4drives.com/DRIVESPECS/CONNER/541.txt
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Seems likely that the CP2124 is closer, likely just different number of platters
and heads.

Academic tho, they both show the same thing with the extra pins near the
ribbon cable connector, so either should be fine about which pins to use,
as would which pins were used when it was in the Compaq Contura.
 
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