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
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
Btw I recently learned that there were more protocols that used this cable than just IDE / PATA, there were some proprietary optical drives that used this camping but could be damaged if connected to an IDE port. Was from a YouTube video and can’t access history right now but long story short you had to use a port on your soundcard that had the same physical pin layout but was different electrically.
Yes there was a window of time where it was common that a CD-ROM drive was sold with a sound card and they would connect using the same type of ribbon cable. I worked for an OEM PC assembly company and installed many of those.