By the way, the motherboard connection is NOT for an IDE drive and you will fry
an IDE if you try to install it there as drive power also goes through the
cable, in the form of +5v, -5v, ground and +12v (for the motors and servo).
Pete wrote:
> Hi
> I have an IBM 286, it looks like a newer version of the model 30. What I
> am trying to find out about is the conecter for the hard drive on the mother
> board. I can plug in an 20 mb drive from an other IBM 286 computer and it
> boots and recognises the drive OK.
> I want to put a larger drive in there, there is one a 3.5 inch bay
> available for another drive. Does any one know what kind of conecter this
> is on the mother board?
> The ide drives I have come across have 40 pins, if I counted the pins rite
> on the IBM mother board, it has 44 pins.
>
> Pete
>
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