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    Asus hard drive caddy connector

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tinkertom, Dec 19, 2010.

  1. tinkertom

    tinkertom Newbie

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    Is anyone familiar with the commonality between the various Asus laptop hard drive connectors. I have an old Asus F7400 that needs a connector. It looks like the Asus Shuttle laptop has the same connector, but I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated. :)
     
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    The F7400 is a Pentium II vintage system. Acccording to the user manual, the 3.2-8GB drive was UltraDMA/33 IDE connection. This should be an ATA ribbon.

    ATA/IDE drives were the only ones being made in that era - SATA drives weren't even available when this dinosaur was made :D.
     
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    tinkertom Newbie

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    I know what type of drive this oldie needs, but the real question is the caddy connector, which is missing. If I knew that it was identical to other ASUS products it would help immensely in finding one. If I can get a hard drive I plan to dedicate the laptop to a rather mundane (slow) amateur radio chore. Thanks for the reply.
     
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