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Originally Posted by chibishin
Obviously you would only use the female component for it.
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Well, clearly.
But the question asked was whether any of the products linked to were ATA-ZIF adaptors, which clearly they aren't.
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Originally Posted by chibishin
I was simply looking for something that would be easier to work with than having to cannibalize CF cards.
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That's reasonable enough, though if they prove difficult to get ahold of, it might be worth just mangling a CF card instead.
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Originally Posted by chibishin
Of course you still have to strip/separate the ends of a ZIF cable and solder each wire to a lead on the female connector.
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Which is assuming that you can fit the female connector into the 3mm of room you will have.
Which won't even be 3mm if you think about it as the pins slot into the ATA-based 1.8" drives, meaning that at least some of the difference in length is nullified by the fact that tyou can't overlap the pins and the ZIF drives.
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Originally Posted by chibishin
Again I'm looking at this as a way of making something that is easily removable.
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I know I'm probably going to regret asking this but why? I mean, how often are you planning on opening up you DAP that it's important this is a removable adaptor?
Also, given that you could give yourself more room to work with by cutting back the ATA pins form the PCB, are you not just making more work for yourself with no real gain?