I was under the impression that the internal hard drive on the 1537 is SCSI and not IDE. Careful, some of those pins have +12 power for the drive on them as well.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:49 PM Curt Vendel via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m doing some work for a friend who has one of these unicorns it’s > apparently a super beefed up CIA use the laptop that wound up in Russia > somehow and he got it shipped back here to the US > > The motherboard was modified it looks like the hard drive was on some kind > of a tray going to a connector which is IDE compatible > > Someone had extremely poorly soldered on an IDE cable in place of the sled > and over the years several of the pans of popped off and they’re not really > making sense as to the solder points they’re supposed to go to. > Complicating the matter is the paint outs are not just a direct staggered > 40 Pin to Pin connection several of the through holes are not in use so > just soldering on I had her and plug in the cable into it is not possible > also the pens are staggered so that wouldn’t make it possible either. > > So to cut to the chase does anyone have the schematics or the motherboard > pinouts for this connector so that I can do a proper soldering job and put > on a clean working cable so that this laptop can vote from the IDE hard > drive? > >