IDE gender changer

[Jose]

Where can I get a 40 pin IDE gender changer in Europe :-x
Thx :-D

P.S. A male to male one by the way...

[Jope]

I guess you need to build this one yourself.

The trouble with gender changers is, that you can't just solder two connectors together - you need to cross the wires, so that the pinout stays the same (otherwise you'll get a mirror image)..

Why do you need this? Are you planning to build an IDE cable extension? I'd suggest you just create a custom IDE cable to your needs instead of doing lots of connections.. You'll thank yourself once you realise that you haven't had any data corruption. :-)

Please remember, that a cable over 50cm is too long in IDE world.

[lempkee]

if u just bought one of thoose ide2scsi adapters and plan on building more connectors on it, DONT! as you will blow yer system most likely..

anyway ure better off making such an gender change yer self!.. like allready pointed out.

[Jope]

I doubt anything will blow, but it just plain won't work - the  SCSIDE bridge's firmware shouldn't be aware of slave disks at all.

You can of course ask their support about it, but I doubt it.