Hi everyone. I am new to this forum. Glad I found you. Anyway, I have come across a problem that I am sure has happened before, yet I am unable to find a solution anywhere. My internal factory harddrive has recently blown up and I bought a new one, a PATA /100 which I have just found out has different connectors than my previous drive. My new drive requires a 40-pin interface cable, but there is only one slot on my board for such a cable. That one is occupied, and it should be. I do have other connectors on the board including a 32-pin. Is there a 32-pin to 40-pin adapter I can purchase? What is the solution here? Thanks for your time.
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i think you are maybe confusing a 40 pin IDE connector with a 32 pin floppy disc connector can you please attach a pic of your motherboard
SATA drives are pushing out PATA/IDE drives. Part of this movement involves reducing the number of IDE ports to 1 instead of the typical 2. I'm not aware of any 32-pin connectors, but as suggested above, you might be confused with the 34-pin floppy controller, which is entirely different from IDE. While I don't know for sure, I would guess that you have at least 2 SATA ports on your motherboard. If you want, you might see about returning that drive an picking up a SATA drive instead. If not, IDE/PATA allows you to run 2 devices off the same channel, which while not ideal isn't going to cost you anything to do. Of course, if you already have 2 devices on that channel, you're out of luck. The third option would be to purchase a PCI-based IDE controller card, like this one.
