The toshiba 1.8 inch HDD

[cyberhedz]

well, here's teh shitty part, i got teh drive, but....they sent teh wrong one, they sent me the 20GB version with the ZIF socket instead of the one with teh standard 44pin ATA socket, i'm looking at pinouts to see if it will work but i have no idea how to make ZIF cables

[cyberhedz]

basing this on the ATA standard cable i have this much so far

Memory stick pin---------purpose----------ATA pin
1------------------------ground----------2,19,22,24
6--------------------insertion(ground)--------2
9-----------------------+3.3VDC-----------41,42 (needs to be steadied to 3.3V)
10-----------------------ground---------26,30,40,43

[cyberhedz]

hold the phone junior, lol, just found the ribbon cables, WOOT!!! this will help keep teh low profile too, sweetness, well, not the cables exactly, but i found a ZIF to ATA, i'm looking for more, will post later

[Krazeecain]

Oh this is awesome, the ms to ata "chart" thing is kind of confusing though. Can you provide a clearer one.

[cyberhedz]

edited it, its jsut to show common pins

[Krazeecain]

ah i get it, so does that mean taht we can connect the pins directly to the ms slot, or are we still going to need a device in between to interface it?

[cyberhedz]

looks like it, i', calling a few cable people to see waht options they have, this is gonna be sweet

[cyberhedz]

my rep is going to RMA the drive for me, using ZIF is maybe something to try later, btu right now, its going to be hard enough with ATA, so that is where i will start

[cyberhedz]

does anyone have teh datel drive that they are willing to submit fro testing? or donations to me so I can purchase one? seriously, i'm going to do this!! damn it we need hard drives in these portable monsters

[Brock_Samson]

You still need drivers for the psp to recognize the hard drive, and since they're no hard drivers in the first place I don't see this going much further. Hardware is easy to come up with, but it's always a software issue in the end.

[cyberhedz]

don't worry about that, i've got that covered, i'm in need of the hardware to test it, i said before, i'm not going down easy

[Krazeecain]

Dammit, I'm broke But again with that microcontroller thing, are tehy useable? or do they do something completely different?

[HowlingBlue]

This is a really interesting idea..... curious how much heat it'll generate.....

If it worked, though, this might be one of the next big hacks, lol...

[Krazeecain]

EXACTLY! If we or somebody could pull this off, it would be one of the greatest hardware mods ever!

[cyberhedz]

well, right now i'm using standard 1.8" drives, once it works we could change it into SSD drives, for 0 heat, 0 vibration