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My XP machine died. I'm sitting here with a maxtor diamondmax 10, 300 gigHD filled with stuff that I want.
the drive is a PATA133, 300 gig. You can't find much beyond someone wanting one on the web. Maxtor is now Seagate. actually happened the moment I got this drive. It's non-existent at Maxtor/Seagate.
The drive works. No problem there.
I now have a Pavilion a1723w.
The specs on it say
Parallel ATA l One 40-pin UltraDMA 100/66/33 connector
l Supports PIO, multi-word DMA modes
l Supports 2 PATA disk drives on one PATA ribbon
cable (2 drives total, ODD only)
Parallel ATA l One 40-pin UltraDMA 100/66/33 connector
I figured I could plug it into this one.but the cable connector is about 1/16 inch too long. It doesn't plug in.
Anyone have any idea if the drive and the computer can function together maybe with a downsizing connector ?
the drive is a PATA133, 300 gig. You can't find much beyond someone wanting one on the web. Maxtor is now Seagate. actually happened the moment I got this drive. It's non-existent at Maxtor/Seagate.
The drive works. No problem there.
I now have a Pavilion a1723w.
The specs on it say
Parallel ATA l One 40-pin UltraDMA 100/66/33 connector
l Supports PIO, multi-word DMA modes
l Supports 2 PATA disk drives on one PATA ribbon
cable (2 drives total, ODD only)
Parallel ATA l One 40-pin UltraDMA 100/66/33 connector
I figured I could plug it into this one.but the cable connector is about 1/16 inch too long. It doesn't plug in.
Anyone have any idea if the drive and the computer can function together maybe with a downsizing connector ?