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
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    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
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      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)