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What is this connector? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Fortatech@gregtech.eu to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I have recently taken apart some old PCs and found an HDD that uses this cable, but my motherboard doesn't seem to have a connector. Is there a way to connect this to SATA or PCIE?

edit: hdd, not ssd

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Should also see the IDE slave/master jumper on the drive itself.

[–] Fortatech@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So like... What does the jumper do?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Many IDE cables used to come with 2-4+ daisy chained connectors allowing you to plug in multiple drives into a single cable on a single IDE bus.

This meant that you had to ensure any downstream HDDs would be configured as slaves to show up properly to the system.

You could either do this manually by setting the jumper to slave (usually just removing it) or setting the jumper to cable select which would automatically configure master slave drives for you.

Example for a Seagate drive:

In your case, you could either use the master select or cable select and it wouldn't matter since you only have one drive.

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No Masters, no Slaves - only Cable Select!