Its an enclosure, I'll look into it, thanks guys. The reason I'm worried is because I'm pretty sure I fried a drive in this same manner a long time ago. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael Proctor-Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mproctor13@gmail.com">mproctor13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Nov 6, 2007 7:10 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>> wrote:<br>> -----Original Message----- Of Munjal Thakkar<br>><br>> ... I have a dead laptop and an enclosure ... can anyone elaborate on
<br>> which way the enclosure adapter pin out goes? It fits either way, and<br>> the last thing I need is to the have the power pins in the wrong place<br>> and frying the hard drive.....<br>> ============================================
<br>><br>> I absolutely DETEST the practice of saving that millicent or two by<br>> going with a "non-keyed" connector and presuming the end user will "get<br>> it right", but regardless of MY wants, "the almighty buck speaketh", and
<br>> companies do what they will ;)<br>><br>> Ok, rant ended -- GENERALLY, I've found that the end of the connector<br>> that holds "pin 1" is usually placed CLOSEST to the power connector.<br>> (on the back of the drive, that is)
<br><br>You did not help at all sense there is no power connector on a laptop<br>harddrive. That is why Munjal is worried sense the drive is powered by<br>the 44pin laptop connector. But sense there is only 5V for power and
<br>ide signaling is also 5V I am not sure that pluging it in backwards<br>would hurt anything. But Tom is right most laptop enclosure I have<br>seen there is only one way to screw the hard drive down and have the<br>cable/connector connect. Unless it is not an encloser and just a bare
<br>USB to IDE bridge then there is usable a little tab on the top side of<br>the connector that goes with the top side(the one with the label) of<br>the harddrive.<br><br>> For this "enclosure", is there an identifiable/recognizable "top" vs.
<br>> "bottom" of the enclosure? (and further presuming the connector INSIDE<br>> the enclosure is fixed in it's orientation) Again, I believe it is the<br>> usual case for the drive to be "right side up" in these situations
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