On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Shankar Viswanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a circa 2002 laptop with a similarly slow PATA drive. I had upgraded to > a newer laptop but was still using this old laptop as an email/IM/browser > station in the kitchen. One day the disk started showing error messages and > it eventually died completely (sometime in 2008). I didn't want to spend a > lot to get a new drive, but found an easier solution. I got a CompactFlash -> > PATA HDD adapter from Newegg that was specifically designed for internal > laptop drives. I don't remember the exact product name, but it was something > like this: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186050
Unfortunately, that is a CF to 2.5" PATA adapter. That is much more common then the 1.8" PATA ZIF form factor. I think that a CF card is physically smaller than the 1.8" PATA form factor, so it might be possible, but I haven't seen one. If you are sure that it was for a 1.8" ZIF interface any clues would be appreciated. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
