[clug] PATA ZIF adaptor for 1.8" drive (linux Digest, Vol 129, Issue 13, Message 3)

[Bob Edwards]

On 26/09/13 14:36, Miles Goodhew wrote:
> Bob,
>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:53:25 +1000
>> From: Bob Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au>
>> Message-ID: <52428865.4020200 at cs.anu.edu.au>
> ...
>> Anyway, before I go and purchase something from eBay etc., I was
>> wondering if anyone, perchance, had an appropriate adaptor that I
>> could borrow in order to recover the (now old) Linux partition?
>> Maybe for a day or so?
>
>    Somewhere I have a ZIF-SATA USB enclosure. If I actually find it
> before I leave for the meeting, I'll try to bring it along (I have a
> hunch you might be there). I_do_ know where I have some CF->ZIF-SATA
> adapters, which I'll bring along as proof of my good intentions (Even
> though I think they'll be absolutely no use to you whatsoever).
>
> M0les.
>

Many thanks M0les, working like a charm!

I couldn't get the blue end of either ribbon cable into the ZIF
connector on the drive, but I could get the white end of the "spare"
cable to mate and the blue end into the USB interface, so all good.
Copying data off the drive now.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.