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New2vtgpc

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I managed to score a zeos notebook 386 from a recycler...but someone ripped the hard drive out..
No big deal its just an ide based drive but it has a special ide to flexible cable for zif slot.
Any idea of how to find one or better yet attach a cf to ide adapter? I thought about cutting and soldering flat cable to main board but i have no idea of how to figure out anything past power anf ground
 
ajacocks said:
Does the ZIF connector have close to 40 pins? If so, there’s probably not an IC on the flex cable (unlikely for a 386, anyway), and likely the pin out is pretty similar to standard IDE. There are a bunch of grounds, so that should be a hint to the pin out:

https://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml

- Alex
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I cant tell...the connectors look like 2 white rectangles with a liftable latch but I can't see the internal pin themselves.
 
DeltaDon said:
Two connectors of 34 or 40 pins? Used as two connectors or combined? Both take flexible flat mylar cables?
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From what limited info I found I believe its a 40 pin standard ide to a flat cable that spills into two connector ends similar to Mylar i think?
 
Hello New2vtgpc; I had a Zeos 386 laptop many years ago that I got rid of when the display failed. If I remember correctly, my Zeos had a 20Mb
or 40Mb hard drive with the mylar connector you are talking about. I removed the hard drive when I got rid of it and I believe this is the
mylar connector it had.

>> Charles

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Dawsoca said:
Hello New2vtgpc; I had a Zeos 386 laptop many years ago that I got rid of when the display failed. If I remember correctly, my Zeos had a 20Mb
or 40Mb hard drive with the mylar connector you are talking about. I removed the hard drive when I got rid of it and I believe this is the
mylar connector it had.

>> Charles

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Kinda...the flat end is split into 2-22pin connector. The bios said the last one installed was a 20mb.
 
DeltaDon said:
Oh, so std. IDE at one end and two (2) 20 (?) contact zero insertion plated contact mylar at the other end. That's going to be very hard to find, IMHO.
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Thats what im afraid of.... My idea is to take a standard ide cable, cut and strip each of the 44pin wires and slowly verify pinout and connect to mainboard and hope for the best
 
New2vtgpc said:
Kinda...the flat end is split into 2-22pin connector. The bios said the last one installed was a 20mb.
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I'll guess the extra 2 pins per connector most likely are extra grounds. Perhaps ground and +5V? But that's just a guess. I have some mylar cables for CD drives, none have IDE connectors, that I was thinking would help bring out signals for easy measuring, but 22 pin mylar ones will be SOL.
 
You might think about replacing the existing connectors on the mobo with a pair of ribbon cable connectors and then signal trace the pins and make a IDE ribbon cable with mating twin connectors at the mobo end.
 
Here what cable type you need. I'm not good in drawings, but something could help you soldering directly:

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