I ordered a 44 pin to 40 pin IDE adapter for my A1200 HD. I read I would need this adapter to hook it up to my PC to pull the files off via WinUAE. Unfortunately this hard drive seems to have 50 pins? Well, there are 3 spots with no pins on the hard drive, so I guess 47 pins?
It looks like this sorta on the back of the hard drive:
[...................... ..]
[............ ......... ..]
It's a Seagate 8T9235AG if that means anything (so far google tells me it doesn't). The cable that hooked the HD to the Amiga has a longer end to fit the HD and the normal 44 pin end on the Amiga end, with additional power that splits off from the cable. I'm guessing for the set of 4 pins on the right of the drive.
This doesn't make any sense to me and I can't find anything about 47 (or 50) pin ide. The size and spacing of the pins is exactly the same as the 44 pin adapter (as opposed to the larger 40 pin style), there's just more of them. I only noticed after trying to plug the drive in, resulting in some slightly bent pins where the connector overlaps the cable.
I'm afraid my adapter won't work, and can't find anything that would fit this bizarre drive.
Anyone got any ideas?