internal USB1 connector

[c0ffee]

Hi, my USB cradle just died on me so i've decided that rather than spend $80US on the 2.0 cradle (mostly because I dislike USB for this kind of thing anyway) i want to make an internal IDE adapter.  The basics are fairly easy I was just hoping that someone might know what kind of connector that is at the bottom of the cartridge...I've done loads of looking around but haven't been able to find anything on it.

I also want to say that this place just so rocks!  If it weren't for you guys i would have never gotten the courage to take apart a DMS that works without fear of destroying it - even though i work with computers and tear desktops and laptops apart on a regular basis - i guess the $200US price tag for a new DMS was what gave me pause - talk about way over priced! especially for the size of the drives!

anyways, any help would be appreciated, if worse comes to worst i'll just desolder the connector from the useless USB cradle, but i'm kind of hoping to get a lead on a place to get them so i can proceed without fear of screwing the connector over without a replacement.

thanks!

PS: All of my hard drives are SATA and i only have one cd/dvd drive so i have plenty of IDE channels open.

[judb]

I hope you realize that PATA (or traditional IDE) doesn't really hot plug so good so I don't suggest that you attempt that using this connector.  You'll still want to shut your system down to connect / disconnect it.

Also, there are a number of tools that won't work properly with the DMS (recovery / repair tools and maybe some of the newer PMM releases) if its not USB attached.  just FYI.

You'd be better off attaching the connector to a USB hard disk enclosure setup you can get for 30 - 40 dollars online or at FRYS because you can still do the hot plug thing in that instance.

as for that connector type, I don't know if its been identified anywhere as I'd like to know what it is.