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  • Found a weird hard drive connection

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 2 17:02:25 2022
    I ran across a Seagate Cheetah 15k hard drive. It has what at first glance appears to be a SATA connection, but the normal gap between the signal and power side of the pins has been filled-in, no notch. Anyone know what this is called?

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to RichA on Tue Aug 2 20:19:12 2022
    In article <73062ba9-2ef1-42c7-a3e9-463210e27194n@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:

    I ran across a Seagate Cheetah 15k hard drive. It has what at first glance appears to be a SATA connection, but the normal gap between the signal and power side of the pins has been filled-in, no notch. Anyone know what this is called?

    sas

    <https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/connecting-sata-drive-to-sas-control ler-006170en/>

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to nospam on Tue Aug 2 20:07:58 2022
    On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 20:19:25 UTC-4, nospam wrote:
    In article <73062ba9-2ef1-42c7...@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:

    I ran across a Seagate Cheetah 15k hard drive. It has what at first glance appears to be a SATA connection, but the normal gap between the signal and power side of the pins has been filled-in, no notch. Anyone know what this is called?
    sas

    <https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/connecting-sata-drive-to-sas-control ler-006170en/>

    Thanks, I checked it out. There are no "read" pins on that side of the sata controller
    and the rest of the drive control and power pins match, so cutting out that notch
    should enable the SAS drive to work in a SATA controller.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to RichA on Wed Aug 3 05:57:00 2022
    In article <9d7af3e9-c4bd-4a73-ad98-0fc874adcb58n@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:

    I ran across a Seagate Cheetah 15k hard drive. It has what at first glance
    appears to be a SATA connection, but the normal gap between the signal and
    power side of the pins has been filled-in, no notch. Anyone know what this
    is called?
    sas

    <https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/connecting-sata-drive-to-sas-control ler-006170en/>

    Thanks, I checked it out. There are no "read" pins on that side of the sata controller
    and the rest of the drive control and power pins match, so cutting out that notch
    should enable the SAS drive to work in a SATA controller.

    it won't, which is why there's no notch.

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