Connecting female IDE ports together - gender chander?

UNFORGiVEN09 · 11-03-2009, 08:03 PM

Here goes;

I had no luck connecting my Sata drive to my RAID controller, well, I did but the transfer mode stayed locked at Multiword DMA 2. So I got a Sata-to-IDE adapter where a Sata cable runs from the drive, into the adapter and the adapter's female IDE port on the other end plugs directly into the motherboard.

That worked too, but the transfer rate was locked at UDMA 2. I read up and saw that anything about UDMA 2 requires the use of a 40-pin 80-conductor cable, which I have seeing as my original internal IDE could run at UDMA 5.

Here is what I had planned;

Sata drive > Sata cable from drive into sata port on adapter > adapter's female IDE port connected to the required cable. The problem is, both ends of the IDE cable are of course female so I had to buy a gender changer to connect the two ends together, and then the female connecter at the other end of the cable could go directly into my motherboard port (male).

The problem is, the gender changer comes with 40 pins (that can be removed very easily if need be) and the adapter has a female port for all 40-pins, but the female ports on the IDE cables have one section that is blocked up completely, so only 39 pins can make contact.

How would I go about connecting the gender changer? Here it is by the way;

Here is the adapter I'm using;

As you can see, all the pin holes are available, whereas one isn't on standard IDE cable female connectors.

Thanks in advance.

UNFORGiVEN09 · 11-03-2009, 09:32 PM

Also, if sorting my issues out with the above hardware I already have will be a complicated process, should I just buy one of these instead?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170395014211&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Look a whole lot simpler.

**raptor_pa** · 11-03-2009, 09:46 PM

I've used both, the first I use for a very specialized piece of data recovery hardware, the second ( or similar) I use everywhere else. Never bothered to check the speeds directly, but I have one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IDE-133-100-HD...item3ca64efe5e on another hardware recovery pice that has done UDMA4 on a drive.

11-03-2009, 08:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
UNFORGiVEN09 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP (SP3)	Connecting female IDE ports together - gender chander? Here goes; I had no luck connecting my Sata drive to my RAID controller, well, I did but the transfer mode stayed locked at Multiword DMA 2. So I got a Sata-to-IDE adapter where a Sata cable runs from the drive, into the adapter and the adapter's female IDE port on the other end plugs directly into the motherboard. That worked too, but the transfer rate was locked at UDMA 2. I read up and saw that anything about UDMA 2 requires the use of a 40-pin 80-conductor cable, which I have seeing as my original internal IDE could run at UDMA 5. Here is what I had planned; Sata drive > Sata cable from drive into sata port on adapter > adapter's female IDE port connected to the required cable. The problem is, both ends of the IDE cable are of course female so I had to buy a gender changer to connect the two ends together, and then the female connecter at the other end of the cable could go directly into my motherboard port (male). The problem is, the gender changer comes with 40 pins (that can be removed very easily if need be) and the adapter has a female port for all 40-pins, but the female ports on the IDE cables have one section that is blocked up completely, so only 39 pins can make contact. How would I go about connecting the gender changer? Here it is by the way; Here is the adapter I'm using; As you can see, all the pin holes are available, whereas one isn't on standard IDE cable female connectors. Thanks in advance.

11-03-2009, 09:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
UNFORGiVEN09 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP (SP3)	Re: Connecting female IDE ports together - gender chander? Also, if sorting my issues out with the above hardware I already have will be a complicated process, should I just buy one of these instead? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170395014211&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Look a whole lot simpler.

11-03-2009, 09:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,933 OS: XP	Re: Connecting female IDE ports together - gender chander? I've used both, the first I use for a very specialized piece of data recovery hardware, the second ( or similar) I use everywhere else. Never bothered to check the speeds directly, but I have one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IDE-133-100-HD...item3ca64efe5e on another hardware recovery pice that has done UDMA4 on a drive. __________________