I saw a PCMCIA IDE card at a flee market without the cable. That stopped me buying it because it’s unclear if I would be able to find the cable it needs. Obviously the drive end of the cable would be the 50-pin standard but what about the tiny connector that attaches to the PCMCIA card?

  • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I have no clue if that would be a standardised format cable, but I doubt it based on the experiences I’ve had with PC cards (interchangeability of dongles was almost never a thing)…

    But dude… You have a PCMCIA capable computer?!? I havent seen one in probably a decade :)

    • coffeeClean@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      My laptop is over 15 years old. I have an expresscard in it now (to get USB3). I think PCMCIA is compatible, correct? IIUC both PCMCIA and ExpressCard are 54mm wide, but the expresscard only uses half the pins.

      • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Thats a question for someone else, I’ve never dealt with express card that I know of (military, so I may have and not known it, LOTS of laptops…).

        Wiki kinda implies it should be ok though.

        I’d use the USB3 card to interface with IDE though… That’s a much more straightforward approach :)

        • coffeeClean@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yeah indeed a USB3→PATA and/or SATA cable was what I was actually looking for at the flee market - but only found the IDE card (which would also work for me if a cable were easy to come by)