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IDE drive, what voltages?

quarryman · 2008-10-03 18:53:27

I'm adding an IDE Hard drive to my media pc. Its not a standard PC and it only takes SATA drives. I bought an adapater to connect up a sata cable from the motherboard to it. Only trouble is now there doesn't seem to be a molex connector from the PSU. There is one spare cable that's smaller than a molex with 2 yellow and 2…

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03-10-2008 7:53pm

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quarryman

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I'm adding an IDE Hard drive to my media pc. Its not a standard PC and it only takes SATA drives. I bought an adapater to connect up a sata cable from the motherboard to it. Only trouble is now there doesn't seem to be a molex connector from the PSU.

There is one spare cable that's smaller than a molex with 2 yellow and 2 black wires going to it. Although the IDE drive has 4 pins i think only 2 are used.

What voltages does it take? I'm going to check the smaller connector and see if they are the same and then maybe solder something.

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#2 07-10-2008 11:39pm
towel401

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5 and 12v

yellow= 12v
red= 5v
black = GND

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