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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:
Thanks man, That'll work!
I really dont want a DVD in there. I want it as small as possible & as clean looking as possible. I found a company that will make it out of an aluminum tube, so that the edges are all nicely rounded. I am debating paying the extra money to get the front face welded on so it looks like one piece & the components will slide in from the back, the back piece will hold everything in place....
That slim DVD is a samsung out of a Dell laptop. _________________ LED Rings $6 (doesnt include LEDs) LED ring pic
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:
Normal PC IDE connectors are a 40-pin EIDE standard.
Laptop IDE disc drives use the 44-pin EIDE standard.
Thas pretty much what they are.... 44-pin EIDE, there isnt any other name.
HAHA and for awhile I was going nuts thinking the pic was of your HDD!!! But it was really your dvd.
so ya 44-pin EIDE
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jiggysmb Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: Xbox v1.6 Modded: Xenium Ice
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:47 am Post subject:
I have tons of pin header strips, but the laptop pin are a bit smaller & closer together.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:15 am Post subject:
i have the connecter peice that connects to the back of the dvd drive it connects into a nother ide cable ill take pics 2 marra but its the same as my drive
jiggysmb Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: v1.0 Modded: softmodded through mech
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:37 am Post subject:
i wouldnt worry about it, the drive wont work.
I plan to just use 1 or 2 laptop HDs & FTP the data to them. Since no one knows what a 2.5 pin header is called I guess I will just use the bulky adapter
I think it will cost too much to have this made with an aluminum tube like I had wanted...but I found out it is cheap to get it carved out of a solid block of aluminum, $150 for a prototype compared to $400 for the tube method. Kind of surprising, I thought bending/flatening out a tube would take less time than carving out 1 sq ft of aluminum.... _________________ LED Rings $6 (doesnt include LEDs) LED ring pic
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:
HERE is a cleaner adapter _________________ Xbox Version 1.6
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jiggysmb Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: 1.6 Modded: Xenium ICE
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject:
Cool! I saw that one somewhere and it was $24.99! _________________ LED Rings $6 (doesnt include LEDs) LED ring pic
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject:
Sorry for the late responce. It was tough for me to say earlier but the actual industry standard name for that smaller 2.5 EIDE connection is "44-pin EIDE" (the - may not be present in some versions of the name)
Just like there isnt any other name Ive heard for standard 40-pin EIDE except that actual name. "IDE cable" is only used to describe it because it is what more people come across (regular PC version that is). Like how many people call cotton swabbs Q-tips. _________________ -Scourge "Rx = +/_\"
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jiggysmb Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: Xbox v1.6 Modded: Xenium Ice
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:
lol...I know what you mean, but for a standard IDE connection you just use a pin header. I cant find the smaller version of the pin header.
I will probably just stick to the adapter. I dont think I will be making many of the case anytime soon, so I can worry about that later. _________________ LED Rings $6 (doesnt include LEDs) LED ring pic
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:
Ahhh... Now I smell what you are cooking!
Ya, even the engeneering catalog I order from dosent have the non standard size pinheader, just the one standard flavor. _________________ -Scourge "Rx = +/_\"
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