[SGVLUG] anyone have experience with a USB laptop HDD enclosure?

[Munjal Thakkar]

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.


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