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

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You can twist the IDE cable to switch the M/S configuration, too. It is not limited to the Shugart bus. But I have to admit it was more common there.

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      3 days ago

      This functionality was implemented with a single cable select wire which is connected or open. I don’t see how a twist would work electrically.

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        3 days ago

        Yes, there is definitely the “cable select” method with pin 28. Maybe instead of cutting it, they swapped it with a GND pin or something?